Cayaponia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cucurbitaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Climbing herbaceous vines, with entire toothed lobed or palmately divided leaves, simple or divided tendrils, and rather large, monoecious or dioecious, mostly panicled or racemose flowers. Calyx eampanulate, its limb 5-cleft. Corolla 5-parted, rotate or subcampanulate. Staminate flowers with 3 distinct stamens, the anther-sacs flexuous, the rudimentary ovary 3-lobed. Pistillate flowers often with 3 rudimentary stamen ovary 3-celled; ovules 1 or 2 in each cavity; style 3-cleft, the 3 stigmas dilated. Fruit rather small, slightly fleshy, mostly 3-seeded. [Brazilian name.] About 60 species of tropical and subtropical America, one in tropical Africa. Type species: Cayaponia diffusa Manso?