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Trichosanthes cucumerina - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Trichosanthes cucumerina - Flowers, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowers, side view; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Trichosanthes cucumerina - Leaf and fruit - Click to enlarge!

Leaf and fruit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Trichosanthes cucumerina - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1441
Date of entry: 16.11.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Snakegourd

Mandarin: 瓜叶栝楼

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2629)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2532)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2141)

      Order: Cucurbitales (28)

        Family: Cucurbitaceae (26)(family description)

          Genus: Trichosanthes (5)

            Epithet: cucumerina L. (1)

Synonyms: Trichosanthes brevibracteata Kundu, Trichosanthes pachyrrhachis Kundu

brevibracteata => having short bracts

cucumerina => cucumber-like

pachyrrhachis => thick rachis

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

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