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Peponium

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Peponium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderCucurbitales
  5. FamilyCucurbitaceae
Native toAldabra, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Free State
Observations recorded1,618

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
38
With media
41
Family
Cucurbitaceae
Collections
MO, MNHN, O, K
Recorded in
Madagascar, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon, South Africa, Kenya

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Benincaseae
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taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Peponium
topic's main category
Category:Peponium
taxon common name
悦猴瓜属
Commons category
Peponium
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Encyclopedic overview

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Peponium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.

Its native range is Tropical and Southern Africa, and Western Indian Ocean.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peponium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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