| Dicotyledon | Literature for Sicyos pachycarpus
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Cucurbitaceae -- The Gourd Family | Bibliography |
| Sicyos pachycarpus | |
Common name(s): `anunu, kupala |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Laysan, Nihoa, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Climbing vines, perhaps with perennial rootstock; stems slender, up to several m long, ca. 1 mm in diameter, glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves broadly ovate-cordate or reniform with a broad basal sinus, 7-26 cm long, 7-28 cm wide, usually shallowly 5-7-lobed or angled, rarely deeply 5-7-lobed, the lobes usually broadly triangular, rarely narrowly obovate and lobulate, denticulate, usually obtuse and mucronate, the central lobe abruptly acuminate, the slender apex often breaking early, glabrous or upper surface sparsely scabrid, lower surface scabrid with short white hairs, petioles 1.5-3 cm long, tendrils 2-branched. |
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| Flowers |
Male flowers in pubescent or puberulent panicles 3-12 cm long, peduncles 2-9 cm long, pedicels 2-3 mm long, corolla greenish yellow, 5-lobed, 3-5 mm in diameter, anthers coherent, rarely spreading; female flowers (5-)10-50 per head, sessile on peduncles 0.4-2(-4) cm long, hypanthium ovoid, attenuate, ca. 3 mm long, glabrous or puberulent, especially toward apex, corolla 3-5-lobed, stigma shortly 3-lobed, the lobes recurved. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit brown or black, ovoid, attenuate, 3-8 mm long (incl. beak), compressed or angled toward base, glabrous or puberulent, abruptly contracted into a short beak. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24* |
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