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Cucumis hystrix - Fruit and leaves - Click to enlarge!

Fruit and leaves; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Cucumis hystrix - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 12/2008 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1132
Date of entry: 27.07.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

Mandarin: 野黄瓜 (ye huang gua)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2616)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2519)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2128)

      Order: Cucurbitales (25)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (25)(family description)

          Genus: Cucumis (2)

            Epithet: hystrix Chakrav. (1)

hystrix => porcupine-like or prickly

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

External links

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