Trichosanthes wawrae
Content
Description
Climber, 5-10 m long, glabrescent or densely brown short hairy, leafy stem 1.5-3 mm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening (orange-)red, mostly yellow-striped, ovoid, 6-8(-9) by 5-7 cm, apex 2-5 mm beaked;
Seeds brown or black, compressed, (narrowly or) broadly ovate, 15-20 by 8-15 by 2-3 mm, base ± truncate, apex obtuse or subacute, margin broad but faint, edge entire.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present)
Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, and Java; 2 forms.
Citation
Merr. 1917: Interpr. Herb. Amboin.: 494
Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1997 – In: Blumea: 481
Backer 1964 – In: Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 303
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 383
auct. non (L.) Blume: Blume 1856 – In: Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 679
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 108
Cogn. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 539
Ser. 1828 – In: A.DC., Prodr. 3: 316
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2004 – In: Sandakania: 31
Duyfjes & Pruesapan 2004 – In: Thai Forest Bull.: 103
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penin.: 845