Taxon: Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.

Common names:

• achocha   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• lady's-slipper   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• slipper goard   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• stuffing gourd   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• stuffing-cucumber   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• wild cucumber   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – English
  
• xiao que gua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• achocha   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• concombre grimpant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Korila   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• tamiá-de-cipó   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• tamiá-de-comer   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• achoccha   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Quichua (Peru)
  
• caiba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• caigua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• caihua   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• caygua   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – Spanish
  
• pepino de comer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pepino hueco   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• pepino de rellenar   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish (Colombia)
  
• caifa   (Source: F Mesoamer ) – Spanish (Costa Rica)
  
• jaiba   (Source: F Mesoamer ) – Spanish (Costa Rica)
  
• korila   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fruit used raw in salads or cooked fide Biol Cucurb 319. 1990)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Xizang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.]; Nepal
  Malesia: Malaysia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Jujuy, Salta

• probable origin in Andean South America

References:

• Kulturpflanze 2:432.
• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Lira-Saade, R. 1995. Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae Latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 9:223–224.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. [mentions].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. P. 8:288 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. [mentions].
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. [mentions].
• Whitake, T. W. 1990. Cucurbits of potential economic importance. Pp. 319–320 in: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cyclanthera pedata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cyclanthera pedata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cyclanthera pedata var. edulis (Naudin) Cogn.
  
• (≡) Momordica pedata L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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