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Melothria pendula
Melothria pendula
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Creeping Cucumber
- K'uum Tulub
- Meloncito (Spanish)
- Sandia de la Lagartija (Spanish)
- Sandía de Ratón (Spanish)
- Sandía Kann (Spanish)
- Sandía Stulub (Spansih)
- Sandía Tuul (Spanish)
- Sandía Xiw (Spanish)
- Sandiyita (Spanish)
- Xtulub
- Guadeloupe Cucumber
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraná
- Rio de Janeiro
- Roraima
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Delaware
- District of Colombia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Virgin islands - U.S.A.
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- riversides
- lake margins
- shrubland
- secondary vegetation
- gallery forest
- disturbed areas
- thicket edge
- riverside thicket
- forest edge
- pasture
- swamp
- montane areas
- coastal.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Climbing to 1.5m or creeping monoecious sometimes glabrous simple tendril herbaceous vine with nearly glabrous stems. Thin dentate scabrid 3-5 lobed leaves to 120mm x 90mm across with 3-5 shallowly toothed pubescent lobes. 5mm long yellow or greenish-white flowers pubescent outside, racemes to 5 flowers to 30 mm long both sex flowers, male flowers in axillary fascicles or racemes, female flowers solitary axillary, calyx to 2.5mm long, yellow corolla 4mm wide with pilose lobes. 25mm x 12mm 3-celled purple & green berry aging black.
Further References
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- Smithsonian
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- USNH
- SAFIO
- Standley
- NYBG
- Mobot
- FOSEUS