8612.000 Peponium Engl.

PEPONIA Naud.

Description of the genus

Dioecious perennial herbs, prostrate or climbing. Leaves simple, palmately lobed. Tendrils 2-fid. Receptacle tube elongate in both male and female flowers. Flowers white or yellow. Male flowers in axillary racemes; often with a long-pedicellate solitary flower; stamens 3; all 2-thecous or one 1-thecous and two 2-thecous. Female flowers solitary; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit ovoid, smooth, indehiscent, red.

Worldwide: 20 species in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, Aldabra and the Setchelles

DRC: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
vogelii (Hook. f.) Engl.

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