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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1009. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text : S. NAZIMUDDIN AND S. SHAHARYAR H. NAQVI
Flower/Fruit : Fl. Per.: April-July.
Type : Lectotype: Specimen of a plant cultivated at Hartekemp, Holland (BM).
Distribution : Distribution: Tropical and South Africa, South East and Far East Asia to Australia; naturalized in tropical and South America including W. Indies.
Comment/Acknowledgements : The plant is extensively cultivated during the warm. season for its fruits which although bitter are used as a vegetable; they are considered tonic, stomachic and carminative, they are used in rheumatism, gout and diseases of liver and spleen. The immature fruit is very commonly eaten during epidemics of small-pox as it is supposed to have a preventive effect.
Map Location : C-7 Sargodha Dist.: c. 6 miles from Khoshab, M. Qaiser 2717 (KUH); Rawalpindi, Botanical Garden, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6078 (RAW); F-4 Sukkur, c. 2 miles from Daulatpur, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Husain 9477 (KUH); G-4 Dathana Malir, c. 3 miles from Malir on way to Darsano Chano, Sultanul Abedin 5424 (KUH); Gharo, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9416 (KUH); Karachi Dist.: Memon Goth, S. Shaharyar Husain Naqvi 59, 63 (KUH).

 

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Annual, monoecious, climber or trailer with unbranched tendrils. Stem glabrous or hairy. Leaves suborbicular to orbicular, 5-10(-12) cm long and broad, mucronate-dentate, deeply 5-7-lobed, lobes ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, glabrous or pubescent, acute, base constricted. Petiole 1.5-3.5 (-6) cm long, villous. Flowers yellow, c. 3 cm across, solitary, male peduncles c. 7.0 cm long, bearing the bracts about the middle or below the middle. Calyx pubescent. Corolla slightly zygomorphic, with obovate, obtuse lobes. Ovary fusiform, muricate. Fruit oblong-fusiform or oval, 7-25 cm long, dehiscent. Seeds oblong, 1-1.5 cm long, 6-9 mm broad, embedded in red pulp, sculptured.
 
 
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