Gymnopetalum scabrum
Description
Climbing or creeping herbs to 5 m long, stem (densely) long grey or brownish hairy.
Leaves:
Fruit short ellipsoid or globose, (2-)3-4 cm long, finely (sparsely) hairy, glabrescent, not ribbed;
Seeds narrowly elliptic, 6-9 by 2.5-3 by 1.5-2 mm, faces small, almost smooth, demarcated by groove from broad, rounded margin.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Cambodia (Cambodia present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Cebu present, Myanmar present, Penang present, Perak present, Selangor present, South China present
India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, South China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam; in Malesia: Peninsular Malaysia (Penang, Perak, Selangor), Singapore, Java, Philippines (Cebu), Sulawesi, and Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali)-; not known from Sumatra and Borneo.
Taxonomy
The plate belonging with the name Trichosanthes lucioniana depicts Gymnopetalum scabrum, although the deeply lobed leaves and elongate fruit are suggestive of G. chinense. It clearly is not Trichosanthes cucumerina L. as stated by Merrill (l.c.).
Citation
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 302
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penin.: 846
C.B.Clarke 1879 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 612
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2006 – In: Blumea: 286
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blancoan.: 13
Cogn. & Harms 1924 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 88: 179
King 1898 – In: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 31
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 445