Sechium was a genus of plants now subsumed into the genus Sicyos:[ POWO: retrieved 11 March 2024] 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".
[ Checklist for Sechium at World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). Retrieved 10 June 2024.]
Formerly placed here
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Cayaponia amazonica (as Sechium amazonicum )
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Cayaponia peruviana (as Sechium peruvianum )
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Microsechium compositum (as Sechium compositum )
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Microsechium hintonii (as Sechium hintonii )
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Microsechium palmatum (as Sechium palmatum )
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Sicyos edulis (as Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw. or Sechium americanum ) – chayote or christophene
Unplaced species names
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Sechium chinantlense Lira & F. Chiang
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Sechium mexicanum Lira & M.Nee
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Sechium panamense (Wunderlin) Lira & F.Chiang
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Sechium pittieri (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey
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Sechium tacaco (Pittier) C.Jeffrey
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Sechium talamancensis (Wunderlin) C.Jeffrey
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Sechium venosum (L.D.Gómez) Lira & F.Chiang
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Sechium villosum (Wunderlin) C.Jeffrey
