Trichosanthes globosa
Content
Description
Climber to 10 m long, at first with sparse grey-brown hairs, early glabrescent (except male bracts), leafy stem 2-5 mm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening evenly bright red, globose, 5.5-12 by 6-12 cm, apex not beaked;
Seeds brown or black, compressed, ovate or narrowly elliptic, 15-20 by 7-9 by c. 3 mm, base and apex rounded, margin present but inconspicuous, edge entire.
Distribution
Aceh present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bengkulu present, Padang present, West and Central Java present
Malesia: Sumatra (Aceh, Padang, Bengkulu), Borneo (Sabah), West and Central Java.
Citation
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2004 – In: Sandakania: 19
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 936
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Prodr. 3: 364
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 674
Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1997 – In: Blumea: 478
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 140: pl. 16
Blume 1999 – In: Reinwardtia: 260