Echinocystis lobata
 
Wild Cucumber

Later Male Stamens

Four km North of Craven on Highway # 20,
Then One km West Along Dyke to West Side of Valley
10-August-2012

The male flower has two or three stamens whose filaments are united in a column.  The anthers are connivent, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.  Note the anthers in this picture have already dehisced.

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Cucurbitaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. 
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herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]

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plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]

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climbing plants with tendrils

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flowers not in heads or spikes; NOT [flowers in long or short spikes], NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]

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flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell]

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ovary inferior; NOT [ovary superior]