Gomphogyne

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Description

Delicate or slender herbaceous climbers, 0.5-5 m long, annual or biennial, dioecious; Leaves: Flowers white, small; Fruit few or solitary, ripening green, small or medium-sized, capsular, cylindrical-clavate, longitudinally striate or ribbed, or irregular-veined, apex truncate, 3-valvate, with three horn-like processes partly formed by the styles at the angles. Seeds up to 12, imbricately arranged in 3 rows, (narrowly) elliptic in outline, compressed, tubercled or scrobiculate, not winged or the margin with a membranous or corky wing either only at the end(s) or all around.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, SE Asia present

A genus of six species in SE Asia; in Malesia 1 species.

Citation

Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 923

Hook.f. 1867 – In: Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 1: 838

Keraudren 1975 – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Cambodge, Laos & Vietnam 15: 22

W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2007 – In: Thai Forest Bull., Bot.: 50

Griff. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 435

C.B.Clarke 1879 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 632