Cucurbitales

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Cucurbitales is an order of flowering plants that includes gourds, cucumbers, and related families characterized by often climbing or vining habits and unisexual flowers.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cucurbitales canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf plant order
taxonomic rank
characteristicFlowerType unisexual flowers
characteristicFruitType pepo
characteristicGrowthForm climbing plants
vines
clade Magnoliophyta
surface form: Angiosperms

Eudicots
surface form: Core eudicots

Eudicots
Fabids
Rosids
economicImportance food crops
medicinal plants
ornamental plants
flowerSexuality dioecious
monoecious
hasTypeSpecies Cucurbita pepo
includesCrop cucumber
gourd
melon
pumpkin
squash
watermelon
includesFamily Anisophylleaceae
Apodanthaceae
Begoniaceae
Coriariaceae
Corynocarpaceae
Cucurbitaceae
Datiscaceae
Gunneraceae
Haloragaceae
Myrothamnaceae
Octoknemaceae
Tetramelaceae
Tetrameristaceae
includesNotableMember Begonia
Benincasa hispida
surface form: Benincasa

Citrullus
Coriaria
Cucumis
Cucurbita
Lagenaria
kingdom Plantae
leafArrangement alternate leaves
leafMorphology often palmately veined
photosyntheticPathway C3
pollinationMode insect-pollinated
stemCharacteristic often with tendrils
systematicsReference APG IV system
taxonomicRank order
typicalHabitat subtropical regions
temperate regions
tropical regions

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anisophylleaceae order Cucurbitales
Poga order Cucurbitales
Cucurbitaceae order Cucurbitales
Magnoliopsida includesOrder Cucurbitales
Anisophyllea order Cucurbitales
Fabids includesOrder Cucurbitales
Cucumber order Cucurbitales