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Trichosanthes tricuspidata

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

• Indreni (Nepali)
• San jian gua lou (Pinyin)
• Bonlon (Myanmar)
• Kyi-arh (Myanmar)
• Aroy-Kalayar-burrum (Java)
• Dây cùc qua
• Ho hoa rùng
• Toua at
• Pul et
• Emperkak (Sarawak)
• Ō-karasu-uri (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• N. New South Wales
• Queensland - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guizhou
• Taiwan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shady places
• forest
• brushwood
• montane brushwood
• moist thickets
• shrubland
• riverside
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (India)
• Aug-Sep (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• May to Aug-Nov

Dioecious or occasionally monoecious, tall robust glabrous or puberulous slender herbaceous evergreen bifid or trifid-tendril vine or creeper, glabrous scabrous palmate 3-7 lobed denticulate mucronate leaves to 120mm diameter, tomentose beneath. 15mm white flowers in spikes or panicles with fringed petals, male axillary racemes to 225mm long, male inflorescence to 150mm long with 5-6 bracts, bracts 40mm x 30mm, calyx tube to 12mm with lobes to 15mm x 4mm, corolla with 5 lobes to 20mm, male fringed petals to 15mm long, solitary axillary female flowers, 90mm bright red fruit with to 80mm across with 10 orange streaks

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• NYBG
• Bodkin
• APNI
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• Thai F
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• P. Chai
• GBS
• FOJ