Fevillea L.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Cucurbitaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Herbaceous or slightly woody vines, dioecious, with simple axillary tendrils; latex watery. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades entire, cordiform; stipules absent. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, in axillary panicles: calyx campanulate. with 5 minute lobes; corolla rotate, the lobes with an appendage on the adaxial surface; staminate flowers with 5 stamens, the filaments recurved; pistillate flowers with 5 minute staminodia, the ovary inferior, globose, tri carpel I ate, the styles 3, connate at the base, the stigmas forming a trilobed capitulum. Fruits globose, dehiscent by an operculum, which occupies 1/3 of the fruit, pericarp subwoody; seeds numerous, large, circular, compressed, not arillate. A neotropical genus of about 10 species.