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Trichosanthes cucumerina

Scientific Name
Trichosanthes cucumerina
Family Name
Cucurbitaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Dun malla (Sri Lanka)
Description
An annual, tendril climber. 3.6-4.5m long with slender, glabrous or slightly hairy,furrowed terns and 3-fid tendrils; leaves simple, alternate. 5-12cm long, 6.5-11cmbroad or broader, very cordate with an excavated sinus at the base, more or lessdeeply palmately 3-or 5-or 7-lobed, usually about half way down. lobes rounded orsubacute, distantly denticulate, glabrous or nearly so above, more or less pubescentbeneath; petioles 2-4.5cm long, pubescent;flowers while, regular, unisexual,monoecious, males in long stalked racemes, females often in the same axil, solitary and short stalked; male flowers: peduncles 5-15cm long bearing 8-15 flower-, near the apex, pedicels 0.8-2cm long, pubescent; sepals 5. fused into a campanulate calyx-tube, about 2.5cm long, dilated at the top, segments narrowly lanceolate, acute, spreading; petals 5. distinct. Icm ’ong, lanccolate-oblong with a tuft of curled laciniae at apex; stamens 3. inserted in the calyx-tube, fi’aments short, anthers connate, linear-oblong, cells conduplicate; female flowers: peduncles 0.3-1.6cm long, hairy, calyx-tube gradually dilated upwards, lower part often hairy; ovary inferior, unilocular with 3 large, fleshy, parietal placentas, style simple, stigmas 3; fruit 3,7-5cm long, 2-2.3cm diameter, ovoid-fusiform tapering at both ends with a long sharp beak, striped with white, afterwards turning scarlet, pericarp thin; seeds oblong, glabrous, 1cm long surrounded by a red pulp. Flowers from September to December (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Indigestion (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Trichosanthes cucumerina (GRIN)

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