Taxon: Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.

Common names:

• Chinese snake gourd   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• Chinese-cucumber   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• gua lou   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• tian hua fen   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore; source of trichosanthin   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):489. 1999; Ill Chin Mat Med, as Trichosanthes japonica)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [n.e. & n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea

References:

• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce. (Herbs Commerce)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
• Jeffrey, C. 1980. The Cucurbitaceae of Eastern Asia. (Cucurb EAs)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):489.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trichosanthes kirilowii.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Trichosanthes japonica Regel
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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
• 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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