Cayaponia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Cayaponia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cayaponia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cayaponia
Cayaponia is among the largest genera in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, with 74 species. The plants are referred to as melonleaf. They are common from the southern United States to South America. Some species are also found in western Africa, Madagascar, and Fernando de Noronha, which is about 354 km (220 mi) off the coast of Brazil.
Most species are found in rainforests and have white or yellow-green flowers. The ancestral mode of pollination in Cayaponia was inferred as pollinated by bats, but at least two shifts to bee pollination are inferred among some of its species. This is apparently the first clade to shift from bat to bee pollination vice bee to bat pollination. A 2011 phylogenetioc study placed the genus Selysia under this genus.
Brazilian botanist António Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso named this genus after the indigenous Cayapo people of Brazil.
...Cayaponia in languages:
- English
- Melonleaves
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Cayaponia africana
- Cayaponia alarici
- Cayaponia amazonica
- Cayaponia americana
- Cayaponia angustiloba
- Cayaponia attenuata
- Cayaponia biflora
- Cayaponia boliviensis
- Cayaponia bonariensis
- Cayaponia bonplandii
- Cayaponia botryocarpa
- Cayaponia breviloba
- Cayaponia buraeavii
- Cayaponia cabocla
- Cayaponia capitata
- Cayaponia caulobotrys
- Cayaponia citrullifolia
- Cayaponia cogniauxiana
- Cayaponia coriacea
- Cayaponia cruegeri
- Cayaponia denticulata
- Cayaponia diversifolia
- Cayaponia domingensis
- Cayaponia duckei
- Cayaponia espelina
- Cayaponia ferruginea
- Cayaponia floribunda
- Cayaponia fluminensis
- Cayaponia glandulosa
- Cayaponia gracillima
- Cayaponia granatensis
- Cayaponia guianensis
- Cayaponia hammelii
- Cayaponia jenmanii
- Cayaponia kathematophora
- Cayaponia laciniosa
- Cayaponia laxa
- Cayaponia lhotzkyana
- Cayaponia longifolia
- Cayaponia longiloba
- Cayaponia macrocalyx
- Cayaponia martiana
- Cayaponia membranacea
- Cayaponia multiglandulosa
- Cayaponia nitida
- Cayaponia noronhae
- Cayaponia ophthalmica
- Cayaponia oppositifolia
- Cayaponia ovata
- Cayaponia palmata
- Cayaponia pedata
- Cayaponia peruviana
- Cayaponia petiolulata
- Cayaponia pilosa
- Cayaponia podantha
- Cayaponia quinqueloba
- Cayaponia racemosa
- Cayaponia rigida
- Cayaponia rugosa
- Cayaponia ruizii
- Cayaponia selysioides
- Cayaponia sessiliflora
- Cayaponia setulosa
- Cayaponia simplicifolia
- Cayaponia tayuya
- Cayaponia ternata
- Cayaponia tessmannii
- Cayaponia tibiricae
- Cayaponia triangularis
- Cayaponia trifoliolata
- Cayaponia trilobata
- Cayaponia tubulosa
- Cayaponia ulei
- Cayaponia villosissima
- Cayaponia weddellii































































































































































