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Prostrate or climbing, monoecious or dioecious, herbs. Flowers white, cream, yellow or orange. Male flowers often with a prominent bract. Petals 5, free. Stamens 3, two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous or less often 2, one 3-thecous and the other 2-thecous. Female flowers solitary. Stigma 3-lobed. Fruit tuberculate, spiny, winged or ribbed, rarely smooth. Worldwide: 45 species in the Old World tropics DRC: 4 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
charantia L. | Description, Image | |
cissoides Planch. ex Cogn. | ||
foetida Schumach. | Description, Image | |
pterocarpa Hochst. ex A. Rich. |
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