Fevillea L.
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Fevillea cordifolia, also known as Javillo and Antidote Caccoon, is a climbing vine of up to 20m belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae and occurring in South and Central America in Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. [1]
This dioecious species produces a globose, green fruit some 12cm in diameter, dehiscing along a line about 2cm from its base. [2] Its leaves are 8-16 by 5.5-12 cm, entire, ovate-triangular or with 3-5 lobes, with axillary tendrils. Lax panicles are 10-15 cm long. Flowers with campanulate calyx, 5-lobed. Corolla with 5 lobes, yellow, orange or pink. The flowers with 5 stamens which are free, and with recurved filaments. The pistillate flowers produce a globose ovary with 3 carpels, and 3 styles more or less united. Seeds are numerous, orbicular or elliptical, and compressed. [3]
Seeds, which contain the glucoside fevicordin, produce a fat with buttery texture, investigated in the 1980s as an internal combustion engine fuel by ethnobotanist James A. Duke. In Costa Rica and Honduras the indigenous people use the seeds as a laxative and for treating ailments such as parasites, fever and stomach cramps, septicemia in farmyard animals, and diarrhea. [4]
Synonyms[edit]
- Fevillea hederacea Poir.
- Fevillea javilla Kunth
- Fevillea karstenii Cogn.
- Fevillea punctata (L.)Poir.
- Fevillea scandens L.
- Fevillea triloba Sessé &Moc.
- Fevillea trilobata Reichard
- Fevillea uncipetala Kuhlm.
- Siolmatra mexiae Standl.
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Fevillea
Bejucos herbáceos o poco leñosos, dioicos, con zarcillos axilares simples; látex acuoso. Hojas alternas, pecioladas; láminas enteras, cordiformes; estípulas ausentes. Flores unisexuales, actinomorfas en panículas axilares; cáliz campanulado, con 5 diminutos lóbulos; corola rotácea, los lóbulos con un apéndice en la superficie adaxial; flores estaminadas con 5 estambres, los filamentos recurvados; flores pistiladas con 5 diminutos estaminodios, el ovario ínfero, globoso, tricarpelar, los estilos 3, connatos en la base, los estigmas formando una cabezuela trilobada. Frutos globosos, dehiscentes mediante un opérculo, que ocupa ? del fruto, pericarpio sub-leñoso; semillas numerosas, grandes, circulares, comprimidas, no ariladas. Género neotropical con alrededor de 10 especies.
Fevillea
Herbaceous or slightly woody vines, dioecious, with simple axillary tendrils; latex watery. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades entire, cordiform; stipules absent. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, in axillary panicles; calyx campanulate, with 5 minute lobes; corolla rotate, the lobes with an appendage on the adaxial surface; staminate flowers with 5 stamens, the filaments recurved; pistillate flowers with 5 minute staminodia, the ovary inferior, globose, tricarpellate, the styles 3, connate at the base, the stigmas forming a trilobed capitulum. Fruits globose, dehiscent by an operculum, which occupies 1/3 of the fruit, pericarp subwoody; seeds numerous, large, circular, compressed, not arillate. A neotropical genus of about 10 species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:11
Specimens with Sequences:13
Specimens with Barcodes:12
Species:5
Species With Barcodes:5
Public Records:6
Public Species:4
Public BINs:0
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
Fevillea is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae (the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family) and the only genus of the subtribe Fevilleinae. Some references suggest that there is only one member of this genus, Fevillea cordifolia (Antidote Vine). Other online sources make reference to Fevillea pedatifolia (formerly Fevillea peruviana), Fevillea trilobata (in Brazil, known as the Andiroba), and to Fevillea passiflora.
The genus is named after the French botanist Louis Feuillée.
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