Taxon: Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.

Common names:

• wild cucumber   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – English
  
• concombre grimpant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• korila   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – German
  
• 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
  

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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)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• cultivated in tropics

• origin South America

References:

• Kulturpflanze 2:432.
• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru) 380.
• Dieterle, J. V. A. 1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat) 24(11):336.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Lira-Saade, R. 1995. Estudios taxonómicas 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. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
• Whitake, T. W. 1990. Cucurbits of potential economic importance. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. (Biol Cucurb) 319–320.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cyclanthera pedata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cyclanthera pedata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

Check other databases for Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.:

• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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

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• 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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