Editing Sechium

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}
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|image = Frantzia (or Sechium) tacaco - Costa Rica.jpg
|image_caption = ''Sechium tacaco''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Sechium
|authority = [[Patrick Browne (physician)|P.Browne]]
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'''''Sechium''''' was a genus of plants now subsumed into the genus ''[[Sicyos]]'':<ref>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A331949-2 POWO: retrieved 11 March 2024]</ref> also placed in the tribe Sicyoeae of the [[gourd]] family, [[Cucurbitaceae]]. Its best known member was the edible and widely cultivated [[chayote]] (now ''Sicyos edulis'').

==Species==
Several species formerly placed in genus ''Sechium'' have now been placed in other genera. Several other species names are [[unplaced]] – "names that cannot be accepted, nor can they be put into synonymy".<ref>[https://checklistbuilder.science.kew.org/reportbuilder.do Checklist for ''Sechium''] at World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). Retrieved 10 June 2024.</ref>

===Formerly placed here===
*''[[Cayaponia amazonica]]'' {{small|(Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn.}} (as ''Sechium amazonicum'' {{small|Poepp. & Endl.}})
*''[[Cayaponia peruviana]]'' {{small|(Poepp. & Endl.) Cogn.}} (as ''Sechium peruvianum'' {{small|Poepp. & Endl.}})
*''[[Microsechium compositum]]'' {{small|Donn.Sm.}} (as ''Sechium compositum'' {{small|(Donn.Sm.) C.Jeffrey}})
*''[[Microsechium hintonii]]'' {{small|Paul G.Wilson}} (as ''Sechium hintonii'' {{small|(Paul G.Wilson) C.Jeffrey}})
*''[[Microsechium palmatum]]'' {{small|(Ser.) Cogn.}} (as ''Sechium palmatum'' {{small|Ser.}})
*''[[Sicyos edulis]]'' (as ''Sechium edule'' <small>(Jacq.) Sw.</small> or ''Sechium americanum'' {{small|Poir.}}) – [[chayote]] or christophene

===Unplaced species names===
*''Sechium chinantlense'' <small>Lira & F. Chiang </small> 
*''Sechium mexicanum'' <small>Lira & M.Nee </small>
*''Sechium panamense'' <small>(Wunderlin) Lira & F.Chiang</small> 
*''Sechium pittieri'' <small>(Cogn.) C.Jeffrey</small>
*''Sechium tacaco'' <small>(Pittier) C.Jeffrey</small> 
*''Sechium talamancensis'' <small>(Wunderlin) C.Jeffrey</small>
*''Sechium venosum'' <small>(L.D.Gómez) Lira & F.Chiang</small>
*''Sechium villosum'' <small> (Wunderlin) C.Jeffrey</small>

==References==
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[[Category:Cucurbitoideae]]
[[Category:Cucurbitaceae genera]]

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