Trichosanthes edulis var. septemloba Rugayah

Variety

Angiosperms > Cucurbitales > Cucurbitaceae > Trichosanthes > Trichosanthes edulis

Characteristics

Plant densely brown hairy. Probract 10-15 mm long. Leaves: blade thinly chartaceous, drying brown-green, 5-7-lobed, to 3/4-5/6 deep, subcircular in outline, to 22 cm diam., densely brown hairy above and beneath, margin coarsely dentate. Male raceme (immature) 10-17 cm long; peduncle to 15 cm long, rachis 3-7 mm thick, sometimes with a solitary woolly hairy male flower at base, hairs c. 1 mm long; bracts (narrowly) elliptic, 20-30(-40) by 15-20 mm, entire. Female flowers and fruit not known.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Distribution

Trichosanthes edulis var. septemloba world distribution map, present in Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1007753-1
WFO ID wfo-0001370270
COL ID 5RW5Y
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Synonyms

Trichosanthes edulis var. septemloba