Siraitia siamensis
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Description
Climber with one (or few) shoots to 5(-10) m long from a supra-terranean club-shaped or ovoid tuber to 25 cm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit solitary (or 2), ripening greenish yellow, subglobose, 5-8 cm diam., hairy, partly glabrescent;
Seeds c. 15 mm diam., pale brown, corky, with broad 3-layered margin, the middle layer largest, the proper seed (excluding margin) elliptic in outline, c. 8 mm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), from South China through Indochina into West Malesia present
Widespread,from South China through Indochina into West Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Java; rare and seldom flowering.
Citation
S.Q.Zhong & D.Fang 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 501
Craib 1931: Fl. Siam.: 759
C.Jeffrey 1980: Cucurbitaceae E. Asia: 26
Cogn. 1916 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 66: 51
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2006 – In: Blumea: 501
Keraudren 1975: p. 34. – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Cambodge, Laos & Vietnam 15: f. 10: 5-7