Sicyos L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 299

8. Sicyos L. 1

Monoecious annual with climbing stems; tendrils branched. Male flowers in axillary racemes, the female in long-pedunculate heads; both whitish; calyx and corolla deeply 5-fid. Stamens 5; filaments connate; anthers more or less coherent. Female flowers without staminodes. Ovary unilocular, with a solitary ovule.