Echinopepon

Echinopepon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America.^[2] Tendrillate vines, their prickly fruits are operculate, with the prickles themselves being stipitate glandular.^[3]

Echinopepon
Echinopepon wrightii in bloom
Close-up of Echinopepon wrightii fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily:	Cucurbitoideae
Tribe:	Sicyoeae
Genus:	Echinopepon Naudin[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms[2]
Apatzingania Dieterle Vaseyanthus Cogn.

Species

Currently accepted species include:^[2]

• Echinopepon arachoideus (Dieterle) A.K.Monro & Stafford
• Echinopepon belizensis A.K.Monro & Stafford
• Echinopepon calcitrapa McVaugh
• Echinopepon cirrhopedunculatus Rose
• Echinopepon coulteri (A.Gray) Rose
• Echinopepon disjunctus Pozner
• Echinopepon glutinosus (Cogn.) A.K.Monro & Stafford
• Echinopepon insularis S.Watson
• Echinopepon jaliscanus Rose
• Echinopepon longispinus (Cogn.) Rose
• Echinopepon milleflorus Naudin
• Echinopepon minimus (Kellogg) S.Watson
• Echinopepon paniculatus (Cogn.) Dieterle
• Echinopepon pringlei Rose
• Echinopepon pubescens (Benth.) Rose
• Echinopepon racemosus (Steud.) C.Jeffrey
• Echinopepon rosei (Cogn.) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
• Echinopepon torquatus (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Rose
• Echinopepon tultitlanapaensis A.K.Monro & Stafford
• Echinopepon wrightii (A.Gray) S.Watson