View source for Brandegea ← Brandegea You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Brandegea |accepted_authority=Cogniaux |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. |place=2, 3: 58. 1890 |year=1890 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Brandegea |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brandegea]]</div></div> |etymology=For Townshend Stith Brandegee, 1843 – 1925, California botanist, explorer and collector, civil engineer, topographer |volume=Volume 6 |mention_page=page 6, 18 |treatment_page=page 17 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual (sometimes short-lived perennial), monoecious, sprawling, trailing, or climbing; stems annual, glabrate; taprooted or roots slender-fibrous; tendrils unbranched. <b>Leaves</b>: blade hastate, 4–5-angular, or suborbiculate, shallowly to deeply palmately 3(–5)-lobed, lobes triangular or ovate to linear-oblong, central lobe usually longest, margins entire, surfaces eglandular. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate flowers (1–)2(–3) in axillary racemes or racemoid panicles; pistillate flowers solitary in same axils as staminate, irregularly produced; peduncles erect at apex; bracts absent. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cupulate; sepals 5, barely differentiated as apiculae; petals 5, distinct or nearly so, white, triangular to ovate or narrowly oblong-triangular with acute apices, 1–1.5[–3] mm, glabrous, corolla rotate to shallowly cupulate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 3–5 (appearing 1–3 from connation); filaments inserted at hypanthium base, connate; thecae connate, forming a head but not fused into ring, horseshoe-shaped, twisted-contorted, connective broad; pistillodes absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary 1-locular, broadly fusiform-rostrate; ovules 1(–2) per locule; styles 1–3, columnar; stigmas 1, depressed-globose to hemispheric, sometimes 2-lobed; staminodes absent. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, light tan, obovoid to suborbicular, gibbous, slightly compressed, beaked, dry, thin-walled, sparsely short-echinate or subaculeate, spinules thick-based, antrorsely upturned, irregularly dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1(–2), subcylindric-clavate to obdeltoid, compressed, not arillate, margins not differentiated, surface muriculate to warty.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p>J. N. Rose (1897b) recognized five species of <i>Brandegea</i> (without a key to distinguish them). Of the five, B. minima (S. Watson) Rose was later transferred to <i>Cyclanthera</i> (D. M. Kearns and E. C. Jones 1992); the others have been relegated to synonymy of <i>B. bigelovii</i>.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Brandegea |authority=Cogniaux |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Cucurbitaceae |distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico. |reference=None |publication title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. |publication year=1890 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_22.xml |genus=Brandegea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Cucurbitaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Cucurbitaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Brandegea.