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Eureiandra Hook.F.

Genus

Angiosperms > Cucurbitales > Cucurbitaceae

Characteristics

Herbaceous or rather woody perennial climbers with tuberous rootstocks. Leaves simple. Tendrils simple. Flowers yellow, dioecious. Male flowers solitary or in few-many-flowered sessile or shortly pedunculate fascicles; receptacle-tube relatively short and broad; lobes usually entire, relatively large; petals 5, free, entire; stamens inserted about the middle of the tube, 5 (all 1-thecous, in 2 pairs with 1 single), free, or the paired stamens more or less united and the stamens then becoming 3 (2 double 2-thecous and 1 single 1-thecous); connective broad; thecae triplicate, ± contorted. Female flowers solitary; ovary terete, ellipsoid-cylindrical, ± beaked; ovules many, horizontal; receptacle-tube short; staminodes present, 3 or 5; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, beaked, fleshy, orange-red, indehiscent. Seeds tumid, asymmetrically ovoid to subglobose, margined; testa smooth or fibrillose. Fig. 4, p. 42.
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Stamens 5, 4 in 2 pairs, 1 single, all 1-thecous, or the paired stamens variously to completely united into 2 double 2-thecous stamens, free; filaments inserted in the mouth of the lower part of the receptacle-tube; connectives broad; thecae flexuous.
Female flowers solitary; perianth similar to that of male flower, receptacle smaller; staminodes 3 or 5, variously developed; ovary ellipsoid, rostrate, terete; ovules many, horizontal; stigma 3-lobed.
Male flowers solitary or few to many in sessile or pedunculate axillary fascicles.
Receptacle-tube short, obconic below, expanded above; lobes lanceolate, entire.
Fruits ellipsoid, rostrate, fleshy, orange-red, indehiscent.
Seeds tumid, margined; testa smooth or fibrillose.
Scandent softly ligneous shrubs or herbs.
Flowers yellow or white, dioecious.
Rootstock perennial, tuberous.
Leaves simple, petiolate.
Petals 5, free, entire.
Tendrils simple.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13288-1
WFO ID wfo-4000014255
COL ID 4GJH
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Synonyms

Eureiandra

Lower taxons

Eureiandra eburnea Eureiandra fasciculata Eureiandra cogniauxii Eureiandra formosa Eureiandra lasiandra Eureiandra leucantha Eureiandra somalensis Eureiandra balfourii
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