| Common Names - Cucumber or Gourd Family | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 125 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 960 |
| Plant forms - woody lianas, thorny shrubs, and trees | |
| World Distribution - both the Old and New Worlds.Distributed around the tropics | |
| Comments - Most of the plants in this family are annual vines but there are also woody lianas, thorny shrubs, and trees (Dendrosicyos) | |
| 1 - Coccinia. 2 - Cogniauxia. 3 - Echinopepon. 4 - Elaterium. 5 - Fevillea. 6 - Marah. |