Crescentia cujete L.

  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Lamiales

  • Family

    Bignoniaceae

  • All Determinations

    Crescentia cujete L.

"Huingo" "Totumo"
PERU
Loreto
BIGNONIACEAE
Crecentia cujete L.
Rio Itaya near Palo Seco (ca. 40 river km.
above Iquitos), alt. ca. 120 m.; inundated
tahuampa, forest (plant heights not including
under water portions). Cultivated tree 8 m.,
fruits green, ellipsoid, to 1* long and 8" dia.
A. Gentry, J. Revilla, D.	20 March 1977
Alfaro Castaneda, & D. Daly 18481
Collected under the auspice« of the Flora of Peru project, a collaborative effort of the Missouri
Botanical Garden and Field Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the Universidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the Universidad Nacional de Amazonia Peruana. Field work
supported by the National Science Foundation.
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