- Family:
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Sicyos L.

[FTEA]
Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1967
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual climbing or trailing herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves simple; blade palmately lobed
- Morphology General Tendrils
- Tendrils proximally 2–5-fid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small, greenish-white to greenish-yellow, monoecious Male flowers few to many in simple or branched racemes, often ± whorled or subcapitate; receptacle-tube shallowly campanulate; lobes small, dentiform; petals (3–4–)5, united at the very base, entire; stamens (2–)3(–5); filaments inserted at base of tube, united into a central column; anthers united into a head, less often practically free; thecae arcuate, flexuous or triplicate Female flowers solitary and long-pedicellate, or few to many subsessile and capitate at the apex of peduncles, smaller than (♂; perianth parts 5-merous, sometimes 3-merous; ovary ovoid and beaked or fusiform, 1-locular; ovule solitary, pendulous
- sex Male
- Male flowers few to many in simple or branched racemes, often ± whorled or subcapitate; receptacle-tube shallowly campanulate; lobes small, dentiform; petals (3–4–)5, united at the very base, entire; stamens (2–)3(–5); filaments inserted at base of tube, united into a central column; anthers united into a head, less often practically free; thecae arcuate, flexuous or triplicate
- sex Female
- Female flowers solitary and long-pedicellate, or few to many subsessile and capitate at the apex of peduncles, smaller than (♂; perianth parts 5-merous, sometimes 3-merous; ovary ovoid and beaked or fusiform, 1-locular; ovule solitary, pendulous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit rather small, ovoid and beaked or fusiform, terete, angled or compressed, aculeate, spiny or sometimes unarmed, dry and coriaceous or woody
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed solitary, broadly ovate and compressed to fusiform, often rather obscurely bicarunculate at the apex; testa smooth.
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Desventurados Is., Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, South Dakota, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Extinct in:
Galápagos
Introduced into:
Angola, Ascension, Assam, Austria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cayman Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Leeward Is., Madeira, Marianas, Mauritius, Nepal, New Caledonia, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Sicilia, Spain, St.Helena, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Ukraine, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yugoslavia, Zaïre
- Sicyos acariaeanthus Harms
- Sicyos acerifolius Brandegee
- Sicyos albus (H.St.John) I.Telford
- Sicyos andreanus Cogn.
- Sicyos angulatus L.
- Sicyos anunu (H.St.John) I.Telford
- Sicyos australis Endl.
- Sicyos baderoa Hook. & Arn.
- Sicyos barbatus (Gentry) C.Jeffrey
- Sicyos bogotensis Cogn.
- Sicyos bulbosus Rodr.-Arév., Lira & Dávila
- Sicyos chaetocephalus Harms
- Sicyos chiriquensis Hammel & D'Arcy
- Sicyos collinus B.L.Rob. & Fernald
- Sicyos cordifolius Rodr.-Arév., Lira & Dávila
- Sicyos cucumerinus A.Gray
- Sicyos davilae Rodr.-Arév. & Lira
- Sicyos debilis Cogn.
- Sicyos dieterleae Rodr.-Arév. & Lira
- Sicyos edulis Jacq.
- Sicyos erostratus H.St.John
- Sicyos fusiformis Cogn.
- Sicyos galeottii Cogn.
- Sicyos glaber Wooton
- Sicyos gracillimus Cogn.
- Sicyos guatemalensis Standl. & Steyerm.
- Sicyos herbstii (H.St.John) I.Telford
- Sicyos hillebrandii H.St.John
- Sicyos hispidus Hillebr.
- Sicyos ignarus Mart.Crov.
- Sicyos kunthii Cogn.
- Sicyos kuntzei Cogn.
- Sicyos laciniatus L.
- Sicyos laevis A.Gray
- Sicyos lanceoloideus (H.St.John) W.L.Wagner & D.R.Herbst
- Sicyos lasiocephalus Skottsb.
- Sicyos lirae Rodr.-Arév.
- Sicyos longisepalus Cogn.
- Sicyos longisetosus Cogn.
- Sicyos macrocarpus Cogn.
- Sicyos macrophyllus A.Gray
- Sicyos malvifolius Griseb.
- Sicyos martii Cogn.
- Sicyos mawhai I.Telford & P.Sebastian
- Sicyos maximowiczii Cogn.
- Sicyos mcvaughii Rodr.-Arév., Lira & Calzada
- Sicyos microphyllus Kunth
- Sicyos montanus Poepp. & Endl.
- Sicyos odonellii Mart.Crov.
- Sicyos pachycarpus Hook. & Arn.
- Sicyos palmatilobus Cogn.
- Sicyos parviflorus Willd.
- Sicyos peninsularis Brandegee
- Sicyos polyacanthos Cogn.
- Sicyos semitonsus H.St.John
- Sicyos sertulifer Cogn.
- Sicyos sinaloae Brandegee
- Sicyos undara I.Telford & P.Sebastian
- Sicyos urolobus Harms
- Sicyos vargasii Standl. & F.A.Barkley
- Sicyos villosus Hook.f.
- Sicyos waimanaloensis H.St.John
- Sicyos warmingii Cogn.
- Sicyos weberbaueri Harms
- Ahzolia Standl. & Steyerm.
- Anomalosicyos Gentry
- Baderoa Bertol. ex Hook.
- Bryoniastrum Heist. ex Fabr.
- Chayota Jacq.
- Chocho Adans.
- Cladocarpa (H.St.John) H.St.John
- Costarica L.D.Gómez
- Frantzia Pittier
- Micrampelis Raf.
- Polakowskia Pittier
- Sarx H.St.John
- Sechium P.Browne
- Sicyocarya (A.Gray) H.St.John
- Sicyoides Mill.
- Skottsbergiliana H.St.John
Sicyos L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Daly, D.C. [7051], Brazil | K001137340 | Yes |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 1013 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 443 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 1013 (1753)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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