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Cayaponia
Sign in to saveCayaponia is among the largest genera in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, with 74 species. The plants are referred to as melonleaf. They are common from the southern United States to South America. Some species are also found in western Africa, Madagascar, and Fernando de Noronha, which is about off the coast of Brazil.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyCucurbitaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,202
- With media
- 314
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, ECOSUR, ECON, UFRGS, GH, UFG
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Brasil, Belice
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cucurbiteae
- Image
- Cayaponia pilosa - Jardim Botânico de São Paulo - IMG 0288.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cayaponia
- taxon name
- Cayaponia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Cayaponia
- taxon common name
- 戎瓜属
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cayaponia is among the largest genera in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, with 74 species. The plants are referred to as melonleaf. They are common from the southern United States to South America. Some species are also found in western Africa, Madagascar, and Fernando de Noronha, which is about off the coast of Brazil.
Most species are found in rainforests and have white or yellow-green flowers. The ancestral mode of pollination in Cayaponia was inferred as pollinated by bats, but at least two shifts to bee pollination are inferred among some of its species. This is apparently the first clade to shift from bat to bee pollination vice bee to bat pollination. A 2011 phylogenetioc study placed the genus Selysia under this genus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cayaponia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.