Cayaponia
Cayaponia is among the largest genera in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, with 74 species. The plants are referred to as melonleaf. They are common from the southern [United States] to South America. Some species are also found in western Africa, Madagascar, and Fernando [de Noronha], which is about off the coast of Brazil.
Most species are found in rainforests and have white or yellow-green flowers. The ancestral mode of pollination in Cayaponia was inferred as pollinated by bats, but at least two shifts to bee pollination are inferred among some of its species. This is apparently the first clade to shift from bat to bee pollination vice bee to bat pollination. A 2011 phylogenetioc study placed the genus Selysia under this genus.
Brazilian botanist António [Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso] named this genus after the indigenous Cayapo people of Brazil.
Species
74 species are accepted.- Cayaponia africana Exell
- Cayaponia alarici M. Porto
- Cayaponia amazonica Cogn.
- Cayaponia americana Cogn.
- Cayaponia angustiloba Cogn.
- Cayaponia attenuata Cogn.
- Cayaponia biflora Cogn. ex Harms
- Cayaponia boliviensis Cogn.
- Cayaponia bonariensis Mart.
- Cayaponia bonplandii Cogn.
- Cayaponia botryocarpa C. Jeffrey
- Cayaponia breviloba Pozner
- Cayaponia buraeavii Cogn.
- Cayaponia cabocla Mart.
- Cayaponia capitata Cogn. ex Harms
- Cayaponia caulobotrys C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia citrullifolia Cogn. ex Griseb.
- Cayaponia cogniauxiana Vera [Lúcia Gomes-Klein|Gomes-Klein]
- Cayaponia coriacea Cogn.
- Cayaponia cruegeri Cogn.
- Cayaponia denticulata Killip ex C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia diversifolia Cogn.
- Cayaponia domingensis H.Schaef. & M.Nee
- Cayaponia duckei Harms
- Cayaponia espelina Cogn.
- Cayaponia ferruginea Gomes-Klein
- Cayaponia floribunda Cogn.
- Cayaponia fluminensis Cogn.
- Cayaponia glandulosa Cogn.
- Cayaponia gracillima Cogn.
- Cayaponia granatensis Cogn.
- Cayaponia guianensis C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia hammelii Grayum
- Cayaponia jenmanii C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia kathematophora R.E.Schult.
- Cayaponia laciniosa C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia laxa Cogn. ex Harms
- Cayaponia lhotskyana Cogn.
- Cayaponia longifolia Cogn.
- Cayaponia longiloba A.K.Monro
- Cayaponia macrocalyx Harms
- Cayaponia martiana Cogn.
- Cayaponia membranacea Gomes-Klein
- Cayaponia nitida Gomes-Klein & Pirani
- Cayaponia noronhae C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia ophthalmica R.E.Schult.
- Cayaponia oppositifolia Harms
- Cayaponia ovata Cogn.
- Cayaponia palmata Cogn.
- Cayaponia pedata Cogn.
- Cayaponia peruviana Cogn.
- Cayaponia petiolulata Cogn.
- Cayaponia pilosa Cogn.
- Cayaponia podantha Cogn.
- Cayaponia quinqueloba Shinners
- Cayaponia racemosa Cogn.
- Cayaponia rigida Cogn.
- Cayaponia rugosa Gomes-Klein & Pirani
- Cayaponia ruizii Cogn.
- Cayaponia selysioides C.Jeffrey
- Cayaponia sessiliflora Wunderlin
- Cayaponia setulosa Cogn.
- Cayaponia simplicifolia Cogn.
- Cayaponia tayuya Cogn.
- Cayaponia ternata Cogn.
- Cayaponia tessmannii Harms
- Cayaponia tibiricae Cogn.
- Cayaponia triangularis Cogn.
- Cayaponia trifoliata Cogn.
- Cayaponia trilobata Cogn.
- Cayaponia tubulosa Cogn.
- Cayaponia ulei Cogn. ex Harms
- Cayaponia villosissima Cogn.
- Cayaponia weddellii Cogn.