Trichosanthes beccariana

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Trichosanthes beccariana

Description

Climber to 12 m long, grey-brown short-hairy, mostly glabrescent, leafy stem 1.5-3 mm diam.; Leaves: Fruit ripening orange-red, paler striped, ovoid-ellipsoid or (narrowly) ellipoid, 2-10 by 2-6.5 cm, apex subacute and shortly beaked; Seeds dark brown, tumid, with two lateral inflated parts, 6-10 by 7-12 by 2-3 mm, edge entire.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, West Central Sumatra present
Malesia: West Central Sumatra and all over Borneo; 2 subspecies.

Citation

Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1999 – In: Reinwardtia: 251
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 77
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2004 – In: Sandakania: 15