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Cucumis maderaspatanus - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Ngũ Lạc, Duyên Hải District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Cucumis maderaspatanus - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 7/1998 © Jörn Germer

Cucumis maderaspatanus - Branch with fruits - Click to enlarge!

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

Cucumis maderaspatanus - Branch with fruits - Click to enlarge!

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

Cucumis maderaspatanus - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ngũ Lạc, Duyên Hải District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1121
Date of entry: 20.07.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

Mandarin: 帽儿瓜 (mao er gua)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2629)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2532)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2141)

      Order: Cucurbitales (28)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (26)(family description)

          Genus: Cucumis (2)

            Epithet: maderaspatanus L. (1)

Synonyms: Bryonia althaeoides Ser., Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem.

althaeoides => resembling Althaea

maderaspatana => from the Madras region of India

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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