Sechium
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Description
Medium or stout climbers, perennial, plants (almost) glabrous;
Leaves:
Flowers rather small, short-pedicelled;
Fruit indehiscent, fleshy (or fibrous, not in Asia), ± obovoid, smooth or sulcate, glabrous, setose or with soft spines.
Seed one, large, ovoid, sometimes ± compressed, testa woody, glabrous, margin absent, edge entire, sharp.