Trichosanthes pubera
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Description
Climber to 20 m long, grey-rusty hairy, partly glabrescent, leafy stem 2-5 mm diam., 5-7-ribbed, growing stem apex reddish tinged;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening evenly orange-red, early glabrescent, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-10 by 4-6(-8) cm, apex 2-5 mm beaked;
Seeds blackish, compressed, (narrowly) elliptic, or obliquely obovate, 8-13 by 4-5.5(-8) by 1-2 mm (but see note), base rounded or slightly cuneate, apex rounded, margin absent, edge entire.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present); Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), East Kalimantan present, Maliau Valley present
Malesia: Sumatra, Borneo (Sabah (Maliau Valley) and East Kalimantan), Java.
Taxonomy
2 The collections Korthals 23 (slender plants from Central Sumatra), and Korthals 97 (stout plants from East Kalimantan), somewhat deviate in having glabrous leaves.
1 The collection Koorders 23006 (East Java), is strongly deviating. It consist of one large fruit (c. 10 by 8 cm with a 5.5 cm long fruiting pedicel), with exceedingly large seeds (18-19 by 8-10 by c. 4 mm). It may represent a separate taxon.
Citation
Blume 1999 – In: Reinwardtia: 273
Duyfjes & Pruesapan 2004 – In: Thai Forest Bull: 92
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2004 – In: Sandakania: 30
Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1997: p. 479. – In: Blumea: f. 1c, 2c, 3c
Blume 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 531
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 117: map 14