Echinopepon

Echinopepon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America.[2] Tendrillate vines, their prickly fruits are operculate, with the prickles themselves being stipitate glandular.[3]

Echinopepon
Echinopepon wrightii in bloom
Close-up of Echinopepon wrightii fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Sicyoeae
Genus: Echinopepon
Naudin[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Apatzingania Dieterle
  • Vaseyanthus Cogn.

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

  • Echinopepon arachoideus (Dieterle) A.K.Monro & Stafford
  • Echinopepon belizensis A.K.Monro & Stafford
  • Echinopepon calcitrapa McVaugh
  • Echinopepon cirrhopedunculatus Rose
  • Echinopepon coulteri (A.Gray) Rose
  • Echinopepon disjunctus Pozner
  • Echinopepon glutinosus (Cogn.) A.K.Monro & Stafford
  • Echinopepon insularis S.Watson
  • Echinopepon jaliscanus Rose
  • Echinopepon longispinus (Cogn.) Rose
  • Echinopepon milleflorus Naudin
  • Echinopepon minimus (Kellogg) S.Watson
  • Echinopepon paniculatus (Cogn.) Dieterle
  • Echinopepon pringlei Rose
  • Echinopepon pubescens (Benth.) Rose
  • Echinopepon racemosus (Steud.) C.Jeffrey
  • Echinopepon rosei (Cogn.) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
  • Echinopepon torquatus (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Rose
  • Echinopepon tultitlanapaensis A.K.Monro & Stafford
  • Echinopepon wrightii (A.Gray) S.Watson

References
  1. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 6: 17 (1866)
  2. "Echinopepon Naudin". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. Butterwick, Mary. "Cucurbitaceae Gourd Family" (PDF). Canotia. 12: 55–85. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
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