Description
Climber or creeper, 5-10 m long, glabrous, leafy stem 3-5 mm diam., sharply angular or winged, young shoots reddish;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening orange, paler speckled, globose, 5.5-7.5 cm diam.;
Seeds dark brown, compressed, elliptic, c. 10 by 3-4(-5) by 1-2 mm, base ± cuneate, apex broadly rounded, margin faint, edge entire.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present), Kinabalu present, northern Crocker Range area present
Malesia: Borneo (Sabah (Kinabalu and northern Crocker Range area)).
Morphology
Young shoots in living plants are reddish purplish.
Citation
Rugayah 1999: p. 262. – In: Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde, Reinwardtia 11: f. 6, nom. inval.
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 90: pl. 2
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2001: p. 211. – In: Beaman et al., Pl. Mt. Kinabalu: pl. 16: d, e
Rugayah 2004 – In: Sandakania: 23
