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'''''Fevillea cordifolia''''' L., also known as ''Javillo'' and ''Antidote Caccoon'', is a climbing vine up to 20m belonging to the family [[Cucurbitaceae]] and occurring in South and Central America in [[Bolivia]], [[Brasil]], [[Colombia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Ecuador]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Panama]], [[Peru]] and [[Venezuela]]. <ref>[http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/herbarium/species/16627/?fam=Cucurbitaceae&page=2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute]</ref> |
'''''Fevillea cordifolia''''' L., also known as ''Javillo'' and ''Antidote Caccoon'', is a climbing vine of up to 20m belonging to the family [[Cucurbitaceae]] and occurring in South and Central America in [[Bolivia]], [[Brasil]], [[Colombia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Ecuador]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Panama]], [[Peru]] and [[Venezuela]]. <ref>[http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/herbarium/species/16627/?fam=Cucurbitaceae&page=2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute]</ref> |
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This [[dioecious]] species produces a globose, green fruit some 12cm in diameter, [[Dehiscence (botany)|dehiscing]] along a line about 2cm from its base. <ref>[http://eol.org/pages/584295/overview Encyclopedia of Life]</ref> Its leaves are 8-16 by 5.5-12 cm, entire, ovate-triangular or with 3-5 lobes, with axillary tendrils. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/botalex/3371499914/in/photostream/ Lax panicles] are 10-15 cm long. Flowers with campanulate calyx, 5-lobed. Corolla with 5 lobes, yellow, orange or pink. The flowers with 5 stamens which are free, and with recurved filaments. The pistillate flowers produce a globose ovary with 3 carpels, and 3 styles more or less united. Seeds are numerous, orbicular or elliptical, and compressed. <ref>[http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=norec.html&-Format=detail.html&-Op=eq&id=7003&-Find ''Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad'']</ref> |
This [[dioecious]] species produces a globose, green fruit some 12cm in diameter, [[Dehiscence (botany)|dehiscing]] along a line about 2cm from its base. <ref>[http://eol.org/pages/584295/overview Encyclopedia of Life]</ref> Its leaves are 8-16 by 5.5-12 cm, entire, ovate-triangular or with 3-5 lobes, with axillary tendrils. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/botalex/3371499914/in/photostream/ Lax panicles] are 10-15 cm long. Flowers with campanulate calyx, 5-lobed. Corolla with 5 lobes, yellow, orange or pink. The flowers with 5 stamens which are free, and with recurved filaments. The pistillate flowers produce a globose ovary with 3 carpels, and 3 styles more or less united. Seeds are numerous, orbicular or elliptical, and compressed. <ref>[http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=norec.html&-Format=detail.html&-Op=eq&id=7003&-Find ''Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad'']</ref> |
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Fevillea cordifolia L., also known as Javillo and Antidote Caccoon, is a climbing vine of up to 20m belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae and occurring in South and Central America in Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. [1]
This dioecious species produces a globose, green fruit some 12cm in diameter, dehiscing along a line about 2cm from its base. [2] Its leaves are 8-16 by 5.5-12 cm, entire, ovate-triangular or with 3-5 lobes, with axillary tendrils. Lax panicles are 10-15 cm long. Flowers with campanulate calyx, 5-lobed. Corolla with 5 lobes, yellow, orange or pink. The flowers with 5 stamens which are free, and with recurved filaments. The pistillate flowers produce a globose ovary with 3 carpels, and 3 styles more or less united. Seeds are numerous, orbicular or elliptical, and compressed. [3]
Seeds, which contain the glucoside fevicordin, produce a fat with buttery texture, investigated in the 1980s as an internal combustion engine fuel by ethnobotanist James A. Duke. In Costa Rica and Honduras the indigenous people use the seeds as a laxative and for treating ailments such as parasites, fever and stomach cramps, septicemia in farmyard animals, and diarrhea. [4]
Synonyms
- Fevillea hederacea Poir.
- Fevillea javilla Kunth
- Fevillea karstenii Cogn.
- Fevillea punctata (L.)Poir.
- Fevillea scandens L.
- Fevillea triloba Sessé &Moc.
- Fevillea trilobata Reichard
- Fevillea uncipetala Kuhlm.
- Siolmatra mexiae Standl.