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Trichosanthes villosa

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

• Mi mao gua lou (Pinyin)
• Badu-jut (Java)
• Do mô (Vietnam)
• Reuss

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• S. & SW. Guangxi
• S. Yunnan - China
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest or brushwood
• forest
• bamboo forest
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Dec-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Nov (China)

Robust brownish-villous herbaceous 4-9 branched tendril vine with 20mm brownish solitary flowers, white petals, male racemes to 300mm, male petals to 20mm long, villous calyx 25mm x 10mm with lobes to 15mm long x 3mm, corolla tomentose outside, female flowers solitary axillary to 80mm long, calyx lobes 15mm, brown-red fruit or green longitudinally white banded glabrous to 80mm x 130mm, tricuspidate or pentagonal villous leaves to 160mm diameter, finely villous above, densely villous beneath

Further References

• Rubatzky 1997
• Mobot
• FOC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Thai F
• Botanicus
• F Indochine