Trichosanthes cucumeroides Maxim.

Species

Angiosperms > Cucurbitales > Cucurbitaceae > Trichosanthes

Characteristics

Stems slender, branched, grooved, pubescent. Petiole 3-10 cm, striate, densely pubescent; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially deep green, broadly ovate or orbicular, 5-13(-19) × 5-12(-18) cm, papery, usually shortly 3-5-lobed, sometimes unlobed; lobes triangular or ovate to obovate-oblong, abaxially densely shortly pubescent, adaxially tomentose, margin denticulate or serrate, apex obtuse or acuminate. Male peduncle 5-10 cm, striate, pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm, pubescent, entire; calyx tube 6-7 cm, pubescent; segments linear-lanceolate, 3-6 × ca. 1.5 mm, entire, acuminate. Female flowers solitary; pedicel 0.5-1 cm; ovary oblong, densely pubescent. Fruiting peduncle 5-20 mm, pubescent; fruit orange-red, ovoid, ovoid-oblong, or globose, 6-7 × 4-5.5 cm, smooth, beaked. Seeds deep brown, oblong or triangular-ovate, 7-12 × 7-14 mm, 3-loculed; 2 lateral ones large, ca. 4.5 mm in diam. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov.
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Sexuality monoecy
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Alexiteric (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Decoagulant (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Soap (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Abscess (unspecified), Trauma (unspecified)
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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Images

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Distribution

Trichosanthes cucumeroides world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294179-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408021
COL ID 58JLL
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Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Trichosanthes cucumeroides Bryonia cucumeroides Trichosanthes dicoelosperma Anguina dicaelosperma Trichosanthes ovigera subsp. cucumeroides Trichosanthes cucumeroides var. dicoelosperma