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|accepted_name=Bryonia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1012. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 442 [as Bronia]. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Bryony
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Bryonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bryonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek bruein, to burgeon or sprout, alluding to rapid growth of herbaceous stems produced annually from large perennial roots
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 5, 39
|treatment_page=page 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, usually dioecious, rarely monoecious, climbing or sprawling; stems annual, hispidulous to glabrate; roots tuberous; tendrils unbranched. <b>Leaves</b>: blade orbiculate to ovate or hastate, 3–5-angled, or palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes ovate to deltate or triangular, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces eglandular. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate flowers 4–16 in axillary racemes or fascicles; pistillate flowers [1–]2–6(–10) in axillary corymboid to racemoid panicles; bracts absent. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium campanulate to shallowly campanulate; sepals 5, lanceolate to deltate; petals 5, distinct, white to cream, greenish white, or yellowish green, or yellowish, usually green-throated and faintly green-lined, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–7 mm, glabrate, corolla broadly funnelform-campanulate to nearly rotate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 5, 2 connate in pairs, 1 distinct, appearing as 3 stamens; filaments inserted near hypanthium rim, distinct; thecae distinct, C-curved to S-curved, connective broadened and sheetlike; pistillodes absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary 1-locular, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid; ovules 3–10 per locule; style 1, slender-columnar; stigmas 3, 2-lobed; staminodes 3–5 or absent or vestigial. <b>Fruits</b> berrylike, red to orange or black, globose, smooth, glabrous, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 2–8, ovoid or oblong, compressed, not arillate, margins thickened-corrugated or not differentiated, surface roughened.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=jeffrey1969a
|text=Jeffrey, C. 1969. A review of the genus Bryonia L. (Cucurbitaceae). Kew Bull. 23: 441–461.
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|id=volz2009a
|text=Volz, S. M. and S. S. Renner. 2009. Phylogeography of the ancient Eurasian medicinal plant genus Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast sequences. Taxon 58: 550–560.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants monoecious; fruits black; stigmas glabrous.
|[[Bryonia alba|Bryonia alba]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants dioecious; fruits red to orange; stigmas hairy.
|[[Bryonia dioica|Bryonia dioica]]
|}
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name=Bryonia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|distribution=Europe;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=jeffrey1969a;volz2009a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Bryonia
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