Trichosanthes cucumerina
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Description
Climber, 5-8 m long, with sparse (dense) minute hairs, partly glabrescent, leafy stem 1.5-2(-5) mm diam.;
Leaves:
Fruit ripening bright orange, paler speckled or striped, ellipsoid or long-cylindrical, 2.5-5(-150) by 1.5-4 cm, apex beaked;
Seeds pale or dark brown, compressed, (narrowly) elliptic, 6-18 by 4-9 by 2.5-3.5 mm, margin broad, distinct or faint, edge undulate.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), from India, Sri Lanka, South China, and Thailand, through Malesiainto West, North and NE Australia present
Widely distributed from India, Sri Lanka, South China, and Thailand, through Malesiainto West, North and NE Australia; in Malesia: Java, Philippines, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands; 2 varieties.
Citation
Keraudren 1975 – In: Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Cambodge, Laos & Vietnam 15: 91
Duyfjes & Pruesapan 2004 – In: Thai Forest Bull: 82
Rugayah 1999: Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Malesia, thesis: 66
Rugayah & W.J.de Wilde 1997 – In: Blumea: 478
W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 2008 – In: Fl. Thailand: 516
L. 1999 – In: Reinwardtia: 252