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Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae

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The plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cucurbitaceae consists of various squashes, melon
Melon
thumb|200px|Various types of melonsThis list of melons includes members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae with edible, fleshy fruit e.g. gourds or cucurbits. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit...

s, and gourd
Gourd
A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crops like cucumbers, squash, luffas, and melons. The term 'gourd' however, can more specifically, refer to the plants of the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita or also to their hollow dried out shell...

s, including crops such as cucumber
Cucumber
The cucumber is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon. The plant is a creeping vine which bears cylindrical edible fruit when ripe. There are three main varieties of cucumber: "slicing", "pickling", and...

, pumpkins, luffa
Luffa
The luffa, loofah, or lufah are tropical and subtropical vines comprising the genus Luffa, the only genus of the subtribe Luffinae of the plant family Cucurbitaceae...

s, and watermelon
Watermelon
Watermelon is a vine-like flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Its fruit, which is also called watermelon, is a special kind referred to by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind and fleshy center...

s. The family is predominantly distributed around the tropics, where those with edible fruits were amongst the earliest cultivated plants in both the Old and New Worlds.
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The plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Cucurbitaceae consists of various squashes, melon
Melon
thumb|200px|Various types of melonsThis list of melons includes members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae with edible, fleshy fruit e.g. gourds or cucurbits. The word "melon" can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit...

s, and gourd
Gourd
A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crops like cucumbers, squash, luffas, and melons. The term 'gourd' however, can more specifically, refer to the plants of the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita or also to their hollow dried out shell...

s, including crops such as cucumber
Cucumber
The cucumber is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon. The plant is a creeping vine which bears cylindrical edible fruit when ripe. There are three main varieties of cucumber: "slicing", "pickling", and...

, pumpkins, luffa
Luffa
The luffa, loofah, or lufah are tropical and subtropical vines comprising the genus Luffa, the only genus of the subtribe Luffinae of the plant family Cucurbitaceae...

s, and watermelon
Watermelon
Watermelon is a vine-like flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Its fruit, which is also called watermelon, is a special kind referred to by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind and fleshy center...

s. The family is predominantly distributed around the tropics, where those with edible fruits were amongst the earliest cultivated plants in both the Old and New Worlds.

The Cucurbitaceae are an important family consisting of approximately 125 genera and 960 species, mainly in regions tropical and subtropical. All species are sensitive to frost.
Most of the plants in this family are annual
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...

 vine
Vine
A vine in the narrowest sense is the grapevine , but more generally it can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent, that is to say climbing, stems or runners...

s but there are also woody liana
Liana
A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. Lianas are especially characteristic of tropical moist deciduous...

s, thorny shrubs, and trees (Dendrosicyos
Dendrosicyos
Dendrosicyos is a monotypic genus in the Cucurbitaceae. The only species is Dendrosicyos socotranus, the cucumber tree. The species is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen, and is the only species in the Cucurbitaceae to grow in a tree form.- Features :It has a bulbous trunk and a small crown....

). Many species have large, yellow or white flowers. The stems are hairy and pentangular. Tendril
Tendril
In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support, attachment and cellular invasion by parasitic plants, generally by twining around suitable hosts. They do not have a lamina or blade, but they can photosynthesize...

s are present at 90° to the leaf petioles at nodes. Leaves are exstipulate alternate simple palmately
Leaf shape
In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms :* Acicular : Slender and pointed, needle-like* Acuminate : Tapering to a long point...

 lobed or palmately compound. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers on different plants (dioecious) or on the same plant (monoecious). The female flowers have inferior ovaries. The fruit is often a kind of modified berry
Berry
The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Grapes are an example. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. They may have one or more carpels with a thin covering and fleshy interiors....

 called a pepo
Pepo
Pepo may refer to:*Pepo , a 1935 Armenian film made by Hamo Beknazarian*Pepo, a modified berry with a hard outer rind*Pepo , an 11th century law teacher at the University of Bologna...

.

Classification


There are about 125 extant genera in Cucurbitaceae, including 960 species. The following is the classification as given by Charles Jeffrey .

Subfamily Zanonioideae (small striate pollen grains)
  • Tribe Zanonieae
    • Subtribe Fevilleinae: Fevillea
      Fevillea
      Fevillea is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae and the only genus of the subtribe Fevilleinae. Some references suggest that there is only one member of this genus, Fevillea cordifolia...

    • Subtribe Zanoniinae: Alsomitra
      Alsomitra
      Alsomitra is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae .The seeds of Alsomitra macrocarpa are among the largest winged seeds in the Plant Kingdom and their shape inspired Igo Etrich to build gliders, later it would inspire the Horten brothers to build the first flying wing aircraft.-Selected...

       Zanonia
      Zanonia
      Zanonia is a monotypic genus in the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae .The only species is Zanonia indica, a medium-sized liana found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia east to New Guinea. It has a number of subspecies.-External links:*** * KBD: Kew Bibliographic Databases of Royal...

       Siolmatra Gerrardanthus
      Gerrardanthus
      Gerrardanthus is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Africa and South Africa, first described by William Henry Harvey , and named in honor of William Tyrer Gerrard , botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s.Gerrardanthus is a perennial climber, with height up to 5 meters,...

       Zygosicyos Xerosicyos
      Xerosicyos
      Xerosicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae. Its name comes from Greek xeros and sicyos . There are three species, all endemic to Madagascar. Xerosicyos danguyi is a large liana with thick stems and round, gray succlent leaves. It is common in cultivation and often called...

       Neoalsomitra
    • Subtribe Gomphogyninae: Hemsleya Gomphogyne Gynostemma
    • Subtribe Actinostemmatinae: Bolbostemma Actinostemma
    • Subtribe Sicydiinae: Sicydium Chalema Pteropepon Pseudosicydium Cyclantheropsis


Subfamily Cucurbitoideae
Cucurbitoideae
The Cucurbitoideae is a subfamily of the Cucurbitaceae, or gourd family, of flowering plants. The Cucurbitaceae are divided into two subfamilies, the Zanonioideae, probably a paraphyletic group of remainders, and the well-supported monophyletic Cucurbitoideae....

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  • Tribe Melothrieae
    • Subtribe Dendrosicyinae: Kedrostis Dendrosicyos
      Dendrosicyos
      Dendrosicyos is a monotypic genus in the Cucurbitaceae. The only species is Dendrosicyos socotranus, the cucumber tree. The species is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen, and is the only species in the Cucurbitaceae to grow in a tree form.- Features :It has a bulbous trunk and a small crown....

       Corallocarpus Ibervillea Tumamoca Halosicyos Ceratosanthes Doyerea Trochomeriopsis Seyrigia
      Seyrigia
      Seyrigia albopunctata is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, the only species in the genus Seyrigia....

       Dieterlea Cucurbitella Apodanthera
      Apodanthera
      Apodanthera is a genus of plants in the family Cucurbitaceae....

       Guraniopsis Melothrianthus Wilbrandia
    • Subtribe Guraniinae: Helmontia Psiguria Gurania
    • Subtribe Cucumerinae: Melancium Cucumeropsis Posadaea Melothria Muellarargia Zehneria
      Zehneria
      Zehneria is a genus of flowering plants – of vines in the cucumber and gourd family Cucurbitaceae. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania. The name honours botanical artist Joseph Zehner....

       Cucumis
      Cucumis
      Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and Cucumis anguria, the West Indian gherkin...

      (including: Mukia
      Mukia
      Mukia may refer to*an animal genus in the family Crambidae*a plant genus synonym of Cucumis...

      , Dicaelospermum, Cucumella, Oreosyce, and Myrmecosicyos ).
    • Subtribe Trochomeriinae: Solena Trochomeria Dactyliandra Ctenolepsis
  • Tribe Schizopeponeae: Schizopepon
  • Tribe Joliffieae
    • Subtribe Thladianthinae: Indofevillea Siraitia
      Siraitia
      Siraitia is a genus of plants from the Cucurbitaceae family. It includes at least the following species:*Siraitia grosvenorii , from China and Thailand*Siraitia siamensis, from Thailand...

       Thladiantha Momordica
      Momordica
      Momordica is a genus of about 60 species of annual or perennial climbers herbaceous or rarely small shrubs belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia and Australia...

    • Subtribe Telfairiinae: Telfaria
  • Tribe Trichosantheae
    • Subtribe Hodgsoniinae: Hodgsonia
      Hodgsonia
      Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.Hodgsonia was named for Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1853 by British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, who examined the plant under Hodgson's hospitality in the Himalaya.-Classification:*Hodgsonia...

    • Subtribe Ampelosicyinae: Ampelosicyos Peponium
    • Subtribe Trichosanthinae: Gymnopetalum Trichosanthes
      Trichosanthes
      Trichosanthes is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines. They belong to the cucumber family , and are closely related to Gymnopetalum. Hodgsonia, formerly included here, is usually considered a well-distinct genus nowadays....

       Tricyclandra
    • Subtribe Herpetosperminae: Cephalopentandra Biswarea Herpetospermum Edgaria
  • Tribe Benincaseae
    • Subtribe Benincasinae: Cogniauxia Ruthalicia Lagenaria
      Lagenaria
      Lagenaria is a genus of gourd bearing vines from the family Cucurbitaceae, also known as the "Squash" family. It contains at least seven species, one of which is known as the Calabash . Its species fruit can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as...

       Benincasa Praecitrullus Citrullus
      Citrullus
      Citrullus is a small genus of desert vines, among which Citrullus lanatus is an important crop.- Classifications of Citrullus :A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms- Citroides Group :...

       Acanthosicyos
      Acanthosicyos
      Acanthosicyos is a genus of thorny shrubs of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae, subfamily Cucurbitoideae. The genus name derives from the Greek words "akantha" for thorn and "sykios" for cucumber or gourd...

       Eureiandra
      Eureiandra
      Eureiandra is a genus of plant in family Cucurbitaceae....

       Bambekea Nothoalsomitra
      Nothoalsomitra
      Nothoalsomitra suberosa is a species of subtropical vines in the family Curcubitaceae, the only member of the monotypic genus Nothoalsomitra. Native to Australia, the species is a vigorous climber with pale corky bark and leaves divided into three triangular leaflets. Flowers have a yellow corolla...

       Coccinia
      Coccinia
      The Scarlet gourds is a genus with 28-30 species.. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species in South and Southeast Asia that is also introduced into the New World. It is best known for the cultivated crop C. grandis, the Ivy gourd.References:...

       Diplocyclos
      Diplocyclos
      Diplocyclos is a genus of climbimg or trailing vine in the family Cucurbitaceae. The genus comprises four or five species. D. palmatus is pantropical in distribution and the remainder of species are restricted to Africa...

       Raphidiocystis Lemurosicyos Zombitsia Ecballium Bryonia
    • Subtribe Luffinae: Luffa
      Luffa
      The luffa, loofah, or lufah are tropical and subtropical vines comprising the genus Luffa, the only genus of the subtribe Luffinae of the plant family Cucurbitaceae...

  • Tribe Cucurbiteae
    Cucurbiteae
    The Cucurbiteae is a tribe of the Cucurbitaceae subfamily, which is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, or gourd family, of flowering plants.The tribe consists of 13 genera...

     (pantoporate, spiny pollen): Cucurbita
    Cucurbita
    Cucurbita is a genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae first cultivated in Mesoamerica and now used in many parts of the world. It includes species grown for their fruit and edible seeds , as well as some species grown only as gourds...

     Sicana Tecunumania Calycophysum Peponopsis Anacaona Polyclathra Schizocarpum Penelopeia Cionosicyos Cayaponia Selysia Abobra
    Abobra
    Abobra is a monotypic genus of the gourd family containing the one species Abobra tenuifolia . It is native to South America, and sometimes cultivated as ornamental plants and also for its edible fruits. Common names include cranberry gourd.-External links:*...

  • Tribe Sicyeae (trichomatous nectary, 4- to 10-colporate pollen grains)
    • Subtribe Cyclantherinae: Hanburia
      Hanburia
      Hanburia is a genus of trilobite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale....

       Echinopepon Marah Echinocystis
      Echinocystis
      Echinocystis is a genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae which includesthe species Echinocystis lobata, commonly called wild cucumberor prickly cucumber.Some authors include the manroots in Echinocystis....

       Vaseyanthus Brandegea
      Brandegea
      Brandegea is a monotypic genus containing the single species Brandegea bigelovii, the desert starvine. This sprawling perennial vine in the squash family is native to the deserts of California, Arizona, and northern Mexico. The distinctive small, dark-green leaves are variable in shape but are...

       Apatzingania Cremastopus Elateriopsis Pseudocyclanthera Cyclanthera Rytidostylis
    • Subtribe Sicyinae: Sicyos
      Sicyos
      Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae.Members of the genus are commonly known as burr cucumbers.-Selected species:-Formerly placed here:* Blastania garcini Cogn....

       Sicyosperma Parasicyos Microsechium Sechium
      Sechium
      Sechium is a genus in subtribe Sicyinea of the tribe Sicyeae of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae. Its best knownmember is the edible and widely cultivated Chayote....

       Sechiopsis Pterosicyos
  • incertae sedis
    Incertae sedis
    , is a term used to define a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Uncertainty at specific taxonomic levels is attributed by , , and similar terms.-Examples:*The fossil plant Paradinandra suecica could not be assigned to any...

    : Odosicyos


Alphabetical list of genera:
Abobra
Abobra
Abobra is a monotypic genus of the gourd family containing the one species Abobra tenuifolia . It is native to South America, and sometimes cultivated as ornamental plants and also for its edible fruits. Common names include cranberry gourd.-External links:*...

 Acanthosicyos
Acanthosicyos
Acanthosicyos is a genus of thorny shrubs of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae, subfamily Cucurbitoideae. The genus name derives from the Greek words "akantha" for thorn and "sykios" for cucumber or gourd...

 Actinostemma Alsomitra
Alsomitra
Alsomitra is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae .The seeds of Alsomitra macrocarpa are among the largest winged seeds in the Plant Kingdom and their shape inspired Igo Etrich to build gliders, later it would inspire the Horten brothers to build the first flying wing aircraft.-Selected...

 Ampelosycios Anacaona Apatzingania Apodanthera
Apodanthera
Apodanthera is a genus of plants in the family Cucurbitaceae....

 Bambekea Benincasa Biswarea Bolbostemma Brandegea
Brandegea
Brandegea is a monotypic genus containing the single species Brandegea bigelovii, the desert starvine. This sprawling perennial vine in the squash family is native to the deserts of California, Arizona, and northern Mexico. The distinctive small, dark-green leaves are variable in shape but are...

 Bryonia Calycophysum Cayaponia Cephalopentandra Ceratosanthes Chalema Cionosicyos Citrullus
Citrullus
Citrullus is a small genus of desert vines, among which Citrullus lanatus is an important crop.- Classifications of Citrullus :A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms- Citroides Group :...

 Coccinia
Coccinia
The Scarlet gourds is a genus with 28-30 species.. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species in South and Southeast Asia that is also introduced into the New World. It is best known for the cultivated crop C. grandis, the Ivy gourd.References:...

 Cogniauxia Corallocarpus Cremastopus Ctenolepis Cucumella Cucumeropsis Cucumis
Cucumis
Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and Cucumis anguria, the West Indian gherkin...

 Cucurbita
Cucurbita
Cucurbita is a genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae first cultivated in Mesoamerica and now used in many parts of the world. It includes species grown for their fruit and edible seeds , as well as some species grown only as gourds...

 Cucurbitella Cyclanthera Dactyliandra Dendrosicyos
Dendrosicyos
Dendrosicyos is a monotypic genus in the Cucurbitaceae. The only species is Dendrosicyos socotranus, the cucumber tree. The species is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen, and is the only species in the Cucurbitaceae to grow in a tree form.- Features :It has a bulbous trunk and a small crown....

 Dicaelospermum Dieterlea Diplocyclos
Diplocyclos
Diplocyclos is a genus of climbimg or trailing vine in the family Cucurbitaceae. The genus comprises four or five species. D. palmatus is pantropical in distribution and the remainder of species are restricted to Africa...

 Doyerea Ecballium Echinocystis
Echinocystis
Echinocystis is a genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae which includesthe species Echinocystis lobata, commonly called wild cucumberor prickly cucumber.Some authors include the manroots in Echinocystis....

 Echinopepon Edgaria Elateriopsis Eureiandra
Eureiandra
Eureiandra is a genus of plant in family Cucurbitaceae....

 Fevillea
Fevillea
Fevillea is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae and the only genus of the subtribe Fevilleinae. Some references suggest that there is only one member of this genus, Fevillea cordifolia...

 Gerrardanthus
Gerrardanthus
Gerrardanthus is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Africa and South Africa, first described by William Henry Harvey , and named in honor of William Tyrer Gerrard , botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s.Gerrardanthus is a perennial climber, with height up to 5 meters,...

 Gomphogyne Gurania Guraniopsis Gymnopetalum Gynostemma Halosicyos Hanburia
Hanburia
Hanburia is a genus of trilobite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale....

 Helmontia Hemsleya Herpetospermum Hodgsonia
Hodgsonia
Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.Hodgsonia was named for Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1853 by British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, who examined the plant under Hodgson's hospitality in the Himalaya.-Classification:*Hodgsonia...

 Ibervillea Indofevillea Kedrostis Lagenaria
Lagenaria
Lagenaria is a genus of gourd bearing vines from the family Cucurbitaceae, also known as the "Squash" family. It contains at least seven species, one of which is known as the Calabash . Its species fruit can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as...

 Lemurosicyos Luffa
Luffa
The luffa, loofah, or lufah are tropical and subtropical vines comprising the genus Luffa, the only genus of the subtribe Luffinae of the plant family Cucurbitaceae...

 Marah Melancium Melothria Melothrianthus Microsechium Momordica
Momordica
Momordica is a genus of about 60 species of annual or perennial climbers herbaceous or rarely small shrubs belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia and Australia...

 Muellerargia Mukia
Mukia
Mukia may refer to*an animal genus in the family Crambidae*a plant genus synonym of Cucumis...

 Myrmecosicyos Neoalsomitra Nothoalsomitra
Nothoalsomitra
Nothoalsomitra suberosa is a species of subtropical vines in the family Curcubitaceae, the only member of the monotypic genus Nothoalsomitra. Native to Australia, the species is a vigorous climber with pale corky bark and leaves divided into three triangular leaflets. Flowers have a yellow corolla...

 Odosicyos Oreosyce Parasicyos Penelopeia Peponium Peponopsis Polyclathra Posadaea Praecitrullus Pseudocyclanthera Pseudosicydium Psiguria Pteropepon Pterosicyos Raphidiocystis Ruthalicia Rytidostylis Schizocarpum Schizopepon Sechiopsis Sechium
Sechium
Sechium is a genus in subtribe Sicyinea of the tribe Sicyeae of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae. Its best knownmember is the edible and widely cultivated Chayote....

 Selysia Seyrigia
Seyrigia
Seyrigia albopunctata is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, the only species in the genus Seyrigia....

 Sicana Sicydium Sicyos
Sicyos
Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae.Members of the genus are commonly known as burr cucumbers.-Selected species:-Formerly placed here:* Blastania garcini Cogn....

 Sicyosperma Siolmatra Siraitia
Siraitia
Siraitia is a genus of plants from the Cucurbitaceae family. It includes at least the following species:*Siraitia grosvenorii , from China and Thailand*Siraitia siamensis, from Thailand...

 Solena Tecunumania Telfairia
Telfairia
Telfairia is a small genus of flowering plants in the squash family which are native to Africa. They include Telfairia occidentalis, the fluted pumpkin, which is an important vegetable in Nigeria and other African nations. It is also known as the oyster nut, a common name it shares with its...

 Thladiantha Trichosanthes
Trichosanthes
Trichosanthes is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines. They belong to the cucumber family , and are closely related to Gymnopetalum. Hodgsonia, formerly included here, is usually considered a well-distinct genus nowadays....

 Tricyclandra Trochomeria Trochomeriopsis Tumacoca Vaseyanthus Wilbrandia Xerosicyos
Xerosicyos
Xerosicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae. Its name comes from Greek xeros and sicyos . There are three species, all endemic to Madagascar. Xerosicyos danguyi is a large liana with thick stems and round, gray succlent leaves. It is common in cultivation and often called...

 Zanonia
Zanonia
Zanonia is a monotypic genus in the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae .The only species is Zanonia indica, a medium-sized liana found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia east to New Guinea. It has a number of subspecies.-External links:*** * KBD: Kew Bibliographic Databases of Royal...

 Zehneria
Zehneria
Zehneria is a genus of flowering plants – of vines in the cucumber and gourd family Cucurbitaceae. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania. The name honours botanical artist Joseph Zehner....

 Zombitsia Zygosicyos
Ref: Watson and Dallwitz 3 September 2002

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