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PEPONIA Naud.
Dioecious perennial herbs, prostrate or climbing. Leaves simple, palmately lobed. Tendrils 2-fid. Receptacle tube elongate in both male and female flowers. Flowers white or yellow. Male flowers in axillary racemes; often with a long-pedicellate solitary flower; stamens 3; all 2-thecous or one 1-thecous and two 2-thecous. Female flowers solitary; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit ovoid, smooth, indehiscent, red. Worldwide: 20 species in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar, Aldabra and the Setchelles Malawi: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| chirindense (Baker f.) Cogn. | S | Description, Image |
| vogelii (Hook. f.) Engl. | N |
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