Trichosanthes villosa
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Description
Climber to 24 m long, (grey-)brown or yellowish brown villose, hairs on stem and flowers to 3 mm long, leafy stem 3-5 mm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening green, whitish or pale yellow striped, ellipsoid-globose, 9-15 by 8-11 cm;
Seeds brown, compressed, (narrowly) ovate, 14-25 by 8-15 by 2-5 mm, base truncate, apex narrowly rounded, margin 2-3 mm broad, edge entire.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera absent); Thailand (Thailand present), Peninsular Malesia absent, South China present
South China (Yunnan, no material seen), Indochina (no material seen), Thailand; in Malesia: Borneo, Java, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands; not known from Peninsular Malesia and Sumatra; 2 subspecies.
Citation
Duyfjes & Pruesapan 2004: p. 101. – In: Thai Forest Bull.: f. 4, 5D
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 304
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2004 – In: Sandakania: 31
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 366
Blume 1997: Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde: 481
Blume 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 539
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 152
Blume 1999: Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde: 278
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2001 – In: Beaman et al., Pl. Mt. Kinabalu: 212
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 675