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Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.

Accepted
Inflorescence
Fruit
Pedate leaves
🗒 Synonyms
synonymAnguria affinis Schltdl.
synonymAnguria dentata Schltdl.
synonymAnguria pedata (L.) Jacq.
synonymAnguria pedata var. affinis (Schltdl.) Cogn.
synonymAnguria pedata var. dentata (Schltdl.) Cogn.
synonymAnguria pedata var. ottoniana Sauv.
synonymAnguria pedata var. polyphyllos (Schltdl.) Cogn.
synonymAnguria polyphyllos Schltdl.
synonymCucumis pedata L. ex Crantz
synonymCucumis pedatus L.
synonymCyclanthera digitata Arn.
synonymCyclanthera edulis Naudin ex C.Huber
synonymCyclanthera pedata var. edulis (Naudin) Cogn.
synonymMomordica pedata L.
synonymMomordica pedisecta Ser.
synonymPsiguria pedata (L.) R.A. Howard
🗒 Common Names
Other
  • Achocha
  • Achokcha
  • Caigua
  • Caihua
  • Caygua
  • Cayua
  • Chuchchey Karela'
  • Lady's Slipper
  • Slipper Gourd
  • Sparrow Gourd
  • Stuffing Cucumber
  • Wild Cucumber
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 Plants annual. Stem robust, multibranched, glabrous. Petiole 5-15 cm; leaf blade 5-pedatisect, leaflets elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, median leaflet 7-16 × 2-6 cm, base cuneate, margin dentate, apex acuminate; lateral leaflets 5-14 × 2-4 cm. Tendrils 2-fid. Male flowers in a panicle; peduncle 10-23 cm, 20-50-flowered; pedicels filiform, 4-10 mm; calyx tube cupular, ca. 2 × 3-4 mm; segments linear, ca. 2 mm; corolla yellow; segments ovate-triangular, 1.5-2 × 2-2.5 mm, puberulent; filaments connate; anthers circular, 1.5-2 mm. Female flowers: calyx and corolla as in male flowers; ovary 2-3 mm; style 0.5-0.7 mm. Fruit narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, 5-7 × 2.5-3 cm, setose, apex acuminate, 8-10-seeded. Seeds black, suboblong, 10-12 × 7-8 mm, margin dentate.

S Kasim
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