Sechium

Chayote ( Sechium edule ) planting

Sechium form a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae ( Cucurbitaceae ). The plants produce fleshy fruits. All wild species growing in Mexico or Central America. The chayote ( Sechium edule ) is cultivated in many parts of the tropics and sub- tropics.

System

The genus includes about Sechium eleven species whose classification has seen many changes in recent decades. Studies of the 90s share the genus consistently into two sections Sechium and Frantzia. The two sections differ in the morphology of the floral nectaries and the arrangement of the stamens.

  • Sechium compositum ( J.D.Smith ) C.Jeffrey
  • Sechium chinantlense Lira & Chiang
  • Sechium edule ( Jacq. ) Swartz, known as Chayote
  • P e ssp. edule Cultured form that is grown in America, Africa and Asia. The plant was known to the Aztecs and Mayas by the Spaniards and Portuguese before colonization, and was cultivated by them.
  • P e ssp. sylvestre wild -growing form, distribution in southern Mexico
  • Sechium hintonii ( P.G.Wilson ) C. Jeffrey
  • Sechium tacaco ( Pittier ) C.Jeffrey: In addition to the S. edule only cultivated kinds growing region, Costa Rica is.
  • Sechium talamancense ( Wunderlin ) C.Jeffrey
  • Sechium panamense ( Wunderlin ) Lira & Chiang
  • Sechium pittieri ( Cogn. ) C.Jeffrey
  • Sechium ulcers ( L.D.Gómez ) Lira & Chiang
  • Sechium villosum ( Wunderlin ) C.Jeffrey
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