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Taxon: Trichosanthes cucumerina L.

Genus: Trichosanthes
Family: Cucurbitaceae subfamily: Cucurbitoideae tribe: Trichosantheae subtribe: Trichosanthinae.
Nomen number: 40106
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1008. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Feb-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

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Economic importance:

  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):488. 1999)
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Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Yunnan [s.]
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Myanmar; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n.], Western Australia [n.]

References:

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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Trichosanthes cucumerina L.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40106 (22 November 2009)

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