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Selysia
Sign in to saveSelysia is a genus of the gourd family. It includes four species of climbers native to southern Central America and northern South America, ranging from Nicaragua to Peru and northern Brazil.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyCucurbitaceae
Observations7
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 49
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), MO, F, USF
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Costa Rica
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Selysia is a genus of the gourd family. It includes four species of climbers native to southern Central America and northern South America, ranging from Nicaragua to Peru and northern Brazil.
Plants of the World Online accepts the genus. A 2011 study based on genetics placed it under the genus Cayaponia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selysia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.