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|accepted_name=Cayaponia americana
|accepted_authority=(Plumier ex Lamarck) Cogniaux in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle, Monogr. Phan.
|place=3: 785. 1881
|year=1881
}}
|common_names=American melonleaf
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bryonia americana
|authority=Plumier ex Lamarck
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cayaponia americana var. angustiloba
|authority=Cogniaux
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. americana var. subintegrifolia
|authority=Cogniaux
}}
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cayaponia;Cayaponia americana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cayaponia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cayaponia americana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 48
|treatment_page=page 47
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines </b>herbaceous. <b>Stems</b> sulcate, glabrous; tendrils unbranched. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1–5 cm, glabrous; blade ovate to deltate or pentagonal, unlobed or shallowly to deeply 3–5-lobed, 5–14 × 5–13 cm, terminal lobe oblong-lanceolate, broadest at base, lateral lobes often sublobed, base cordate to truncate or rounded, margins remotely serrulate or denticulate, surfaces hirsute-hispidulous abaxially (not white-sericeous), pustulate-scabrous adaxially. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals deltate to triangular, 1–2 mm; petals pale green to whitish, corolla 6–10 mm; pistillate flowers solitary, axillary, or 3–5 on short racemoid branches, staminate flowers solitary, axillary. <b>Fruits</b> usually 1, axillary, or 3–5 on racemoid branches, orange to golden brown, short ellipsoid-cylindric, 1.5–2 cm; peduncle 8–15(–30) mm. <b>Seeds</b> usually 3, 10 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, hammock edges and clearings
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p>Cayaponia americana is known in the flora area only from Miami-Dade County. The leaf blades are darker and thicker than those of C. quinqueloba, and peduncle length is greater in C. americana.</p>
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name=Cayaponia americana
|author=
|authority=(Plumier ex Lamarck) Cogniaux in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cayaponia americana var. angustiloba;C. americana var. subintegrifolia
|basionyms=Bryonia americana
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, hammock edges and clearings
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle, Monogr. Phan.
|publication year=1881
|special status=
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|genus=Cayaponia
|species=Cayaponia americana
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