OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Cucurbitales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cayaponia quinqueloba   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cayaponia quinqueloba   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cayaponia quinqueloba

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Cayaponia quinqueloba

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Cayaponia grandifolia

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Cayaponia quinqueloba

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 177-05-001:

Cayaponia boykinii   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cayaponia boykinii

 

COMMON NAME:
Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber


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image of Cayaponia quinqueloba, Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_caqu3_003_lvd

        

image of Cayaponia quinqueloba, Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_quinqueloba_6

August        

Other floral whorls appear to arise from the top of the inferior ovary, per Plant Identification Terminology (Harris & Harris, 1994).

image of Cayaponia quinqueloba, Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_c_quinqueloba_5

September        

Fruit surface red at maturity, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Cayaponia quinqueloba, Five-lobed Cucumber, Melon-leaf Cucumber

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_cayaponia_quinqueloba

September        

Leaves palmately lobed, the divisions angular and toothed, per Weakley's Flora.


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cayaponia quinqueloba   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cayaponia quinqueloba   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cayaponia quinqueloba

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Cayaponia quinqueloba

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cayaponia grandifolia

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cayaponia quinqueloba

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 177-05-001:
Cayaponia boykinii   FAMILY Cucurbitaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cayaponia boykinii

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3593

Climbing herbaceous vine
Monoecious

Habitat: swamp forests, river banks, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White to Yellow
5-6 lobed calyx
5-6 lobed rotate corolla
Inferior ovary
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Berry

 

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