Cyclanthera

Cyclanthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae. The name comes from the fact that some species show extreme cases of stamen fusion forming a ring around the gynoecium, with a single locule.

Cyclanthera
Cyclanthera pedata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily:	Cucurbitoideae
Tribe:	Sicyoeae
Genus:	Cyclanthera Schrad. 1831[1]
Type species
Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrader
Species
Several, including: Cyclanthera brachystachya Cyclanthera carthagenensis Cyclanthera pedata Cyclanthera tenuifolia Cyclanthera tenuisepala
Synonyms
Cremastopus Paul G.Wilson, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 36: t. 3586. (1962) Discanthera Torr. & A. Gray Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 696. (1840) Heterosicyos (S.Watson) Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 24: 378. 1897, nom. illeg. non Welw. ex Hook. & Benth. (1867) Sicyos sect. Heterosicyos S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 23: 274. (1888) Pseudocyclanthera Mart. Crov. Notul. Syst. (Paris) 15: 56. (1954) Rytidostylis Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 424. (1841)

References

1. Schrader, H.A. (1831) Index Seminum (Göttingen) 1831: 2.

• Schaefer, H. & Renner, S.S. (2011) Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), Taxon, 60 (1): 122–138.
• Kearns, D.M. & Jones, E. (1992) A re-evaluation of the genus Cremastopus (Cucurbitaceae). Madroño 39: 301-303.
• Lira Saade, R. (1995) Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Rome: IPGRI.

External links

• Media related to Cyclanthera at Wikimedia Commons
• " Multilingual taxonomic information". University of Melbourne.