Trichosanthes montana

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Trichosanthes montana

Description

Climber to 12 m long, minutely brown hairy, hairs 1 mm long, glabrescent, leafy stem 3-6 mm diam.; Leaves: Fruit solitary at the nodes or in old male raceme, ripening evenly orange or bright red, (depressed) globose or ellipsoid, 10-14 by 8-14 cm, apex rounded; Seeds brown-black, compressed, ovate-oblong, 17-20 by 6-8 by 2-3 mm, base and apex narrowly rounded, margin present, distinct or faint, edge entire.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: Sumatra, Borneo, and Java; 2 subspecies.

Citation

Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1999 – In: Reinwardtia: 268
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 143: pl. 17