Biology:Sicana
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Sicana | |
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| Sicana odorifera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Cucurbitales |
| Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cucurbitoideae |
| Tribe: | Cucurbiteae |
| Genus: | Sicana Naudin[1] |
Sicana is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae. There are three or four species, found in rainforest and secondary scrub in the Caribbean and Central America.[2]
Species
According to Hanno Schaefer and Susanne Renner, there are four species in the genus.[2] (As of March 2016), The Plant List gave only three accepted species:[3]
- Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin
- Sicana sphaerica Hook.
- Sicana trinitensis Cheesman
References
- ↑ "Plant Name Details for Sicana Naudin", The International Plant Names Index, http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=13406-1, retrieved 2016-03-02
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schaefer, Hanno; Renner, Susanne S. (2011), "Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)", Taxon 60 (1): 122–138, doi:10.1002/tax.601011, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233548266, retrieved 2016-03-02
- ↑ "Search results for Sicana", The Plant List, http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Sicana, retrieved 2016-03-02
Wikidata ☰ Q15726526 entry
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