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''Fevillea cordifolia'', 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. 〔(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute )〕 This dioecious species produces a globose, green fruit some 12cm in diameter, dehiscing along a line about 2cm from its base. 〔(Encyclopedia of Life )〕 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. 〔(''Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad'' )〕 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. 〔(''Plants of Semillas Sagradas'' )〕 ==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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fevillea cordifolia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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