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Cucurbitaceae |
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Flowers: Imperfect and the plants monoecious or dioecious, actinomorphic; petals connate, often yellow; filaments and anthers often connate; anthers straight to folded or bent; carpels 3, syncarpous; ovary inferior, 1-locular with many parietal ovules; hypanthium sometimes present Inflorescences: Flowers solitary or in axillary cymes, panicles, or racemes Fruits: Pepo, also berries or capsules Habit: Herbaceous vines with tendrils; producing triterpenoid cucurbitacins Leaves: Alternate, palmately lobed or divided, no stipules
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