Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae. Members of the genus may be known as burr cucumbers, but the genus includes Sicyos edulis which is the christophine or chayote.
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Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae. Members of the genus may be known as burr cucumbers, but the genus includes Sicyos edulis which is the christophine or chayote.
==Species== Plants of the World Online includes: Sicyos acariaeanthus Sicyos acerifolius Sicyos albus Sicyos andreanus Sicyos angulatus Sicyos anunu Sicyos australis Sicyos baderoa Sicyos barbatus Sicyos bogotensis Sicyos bulbosus Sicyos chaetocephalus Sicyos chiriquensis Sicyos collinus Sicyos cordifolius Sicyos cucumerinus Sicyos davilae Sicyos debilis Sicyos dieterleae Sicyos edulis (restored Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.) Sicyos erostratus Sicyos fusiformis Sicyos galeottii Sicyos glaber Sicyos gracillimus Sicyos guatemalensis Sicyos herbstii Sicyos hillebrandii Sicyos hispidus Sicyos ignarus Sicyos kunthii Sicyos kuntzei Sicyos laciniatus Sicyos laevis Sicyos lanceoloideus Sicyos lasiocephalus Sicyos lirae Sicyos longisepalus Sicyos longisetosus Sicyos macrocarpus Sicyos macrophyllus Sicyos malvifolius Sicyos martii Sicyos mawhai Sicyos maximowiczii Sicyos mcvaughii Sicyos microphyllus Sicyos montanus Sicyos odonellii Sicyos pachycarpus Sicyos palmatilobus Sicyos parviflorus Sicyos peninsularis Sicyos polyacanthos Sicyos semitonsus Sicyos sertulifer Sicyos sinaloae Sicyos undara Sicyos urolobus Sicyos vargasii Sicyos villosus Sicyos waimanaloensis Sicyos warmingii Sicyos weberbaueri
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).