All Floras      Advanced Search
FOC Vol. 19 Page 1, 16 Login | eFloras Home | Help
FOC | Family List | FOC Vol. 19 | Cucurbitaceae

5. Zanonia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1028. 1753.

翅子瓜属 chi zi gua shu

Authors: Anmin Lu & Charles Jeffrey

Climbers, woody. Stem subglabrous. Leaves petiolate, undivided, margin entire. Tendrils simple or bifid. Plants dioecious; male flowers in lax pendulous panicles; female flowers in racemes. Male flower: calyx tube shortly cupular; segments 3, rarely 4, membranous, concave; corolla rotate; segments 5, apex narrow and inflexed in flower bud; stamens 5, free, all of same length, inserted on a fleshy disk; filaments short, thick; anthers oblong, 1-celled; pistillode absent. Female flowers: calyx as in male flowers; staminodes 5, very short, alternate with petals; ovary inferior, at first 3-loculed, ultimately 1-loculed; styles 3, spreading, apex bifid; ovules in each locule 2 or many, pendulous, attached in 2 series to a fleshy parietal placenta. Fruit a capsule, large, narrowly cylindric, clavate, 3-valved at truncate apex. Seeds pendulous, large, oblong, compressed, surrounded by a large membranous wing.

One species: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Lower Taxa


 

Related Objects  
  • Zanonia (PDF)
  • PDF

    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    Browse by
    Volume
    Family
    Genera
    Advanced Search


    Flora of China Home


    Checklist

     

     

     |  eFlora Home |  People Search  |  Help  |  ActKey  |  Hu Cards  |  Glossary  |