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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/31/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/31/2013)
Genus Cionosicys Griseb.
PlaceOfPublication Fl. Brit. W. I. 288. 1860.
Note TYPE: C. pomiformis (Macfadyen) Griseb.
Description Monoecious, tendriled herbaceous or suffrutescent vines; stems 5-sulcate. Leaves petiolate, entire, angulate or palmately 3- to 5-lobate; tendrils simple or 2-branched. Staminate flowers solitary or few in the axils of the leaves; calyx campanulate, 5-lobate; corolla campanulate, 5-lobate almost to the base; stamens 3, the filaments free, the anthers connate, theca replicate, one unithecous, others bithecous. Pistillate flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves; calyx and corolla as in the staminate flowers, but smaller; ovary ovoid, the stigmas 3, forming a peltate, 3-lobed head. Fruits globose, peponiform, indehiscent; seeds numerous, horizontal, ovate or oblong, subcompressed, the testa smooth.
Habit vines
Distribution Cionosicjs is a genus of 3 species of Middle America and the Caribbean with one species in Panama.
Reference Jeffrey, C. 1971. Further notes on Cucurbitaceae. II. The tribe Cucurbiteae. Kew Bull. 25: 191-236.
 
 
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