Mukia

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Mukia

Description

Small climbers, shoots herbaceous, (sub)annual or with a (thick) perennial root, leafy stem c. 2 mm diam., whole plant scabrid-hairy; Leaves: Flowers small; Fruits 1-6, clustered, subsessile or short-pedicelled, ripening red, sometimes darker flecked, (sub)globose or ellipsoid, 0.5-3 cm long, juicy; Seeds few or many, whitish or pale brown, subglobose or compressed, ornamented or not, margin distinct, edge subentire, sometimes grooved.

Distribution

Africa present, Asia-Tropical, Australasia, SE Asia present, from Pakistan east to China and south-east through Indo-China to Australia present, tropics of the Old World present
A genus of about 9 species, including some 3 unpublished Australian species, distributed in the tropics of the Old World: Africa (1 species); in SE Asiafrom Pakistan east to China and south-east through Indo-China to Australia; in Malesia: 3 species.

Notes

2 The broadened glabrous apices in immature leaves are also seen in various other genera, e.g. Benincasa, and Cucumis. 1 Molecular data (, and ) indicate that Mukia is nested within Cucumis.

Citation

Arn. 1969: p. 2. – In: Hooker’s Ic. Pl.: t. 3661-3664
C.B.Clarke 1879 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 623
C.Jeffrey 1962 – In: Kew Bull.: 343
Arn. 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 471
Keraudren 1975 – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Camb., Laos, Viêt-Nam 15: 57
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2006 – In: Thai Forest Bull.: 38