GENUS: Pteropepon (Cogn.) Cogn.

PUBLISHED IN: Das Pflanzenreich IV(Heft 66): 260. 1916.

ETYMOLOGY: Greek pteron “a wing,” and pepon, peponos “ripe, mild,” Latin pepo, peponis “a species of large melon or pumpkin.”

BASIONYM: Sicydium sect. Pteropepon Cogn. Flora Brasiliensis 6(4): 112. 1878.

SYNONYMY:

In the tribe Zanonieae Blume, Bijdr.: 936. 1826.
In the subtribe Sicydiinae Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 5: 21. 1889.

Three species.
Brazil, Argentina.

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