- Cucurbitaceae
Key to the genera of Cucurbitaceae
Remaining items (10)
Cucurbita (see note in Cucurbitaceae profile) Lagenaria (see note in Cucurbitaceae profile) 1Plants with either simple or branched tendrils; plants usually long-trailing or climbing; fruit remaining attached to plant2 1Plants lacking tendrils; plants usually not long-trailing or climbing; fruit falling from plant at maturity and explosively squirting out seedsEcballium > Ecballium elaterium 2Leaves with no glands at base of lamina3 2Leaves with 2 glands at base of laminaLagenaria (see note in Cucurbitaceae profile)
4Fruit glabrous or glabrescent with fine scabrous hairs; petals 1–15 mm long5 4Fruit with large bristly hairs; petals 2–5 mm longCucumis → 5Flowers solitary in axils, petals 5–15 mm long; vigorous weedsCitrullus → 7Flowers yellow or yellow-green, solitary; vigorous weeds mainly of western Victoria8 7Flowers white-green in heads or racemes; rare, delicate native twiner of moist forests in East GippslandSicyos > Sicyos australis 8Leaves simple, toothedCucurbita (see note in Cucurbitaceae profile)
From: Jobson, P.C. (1996). Cucurbitaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria. Vol. 3. Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
