We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Cucurbitaceae

CUCURBITACEAE

Scandent herbs, us. monoec. or dioec. Infl. axillary, cymose to a solitary fl.; fls regular, 5-merous. ♂ with variously modified androecium, anthers dehiscing by a longitudinal slit; ♀ with inferior, us. 3-carpelled, ovary. Fr. baccate, with ∞ seeds; cots large, endosperm 0. Family mainly tropical and subtropical with some 100 genera and over 850 spp.

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top