Melothria pendula

Melothria pendula

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Cucurbitales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Cucurbitales

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Benincaseae
Genus: Melothria
Species: Melothria pendula
Varieties: M. p. var. aspera – M. p. var. crassifolia

Name edit

Melothria pendula L., Sp. Pl. 35 1753.

Synonyms edit

  • Apodanthera gracilis Benth.
  • Bryonia convolvulifolia Schltdl.
  • Bryonia guadalupensis Spreng.
  • Bryonia melothria Crantz
  • Cucumis glaber Walt.
  • Diclidostigma melothrioides Kunze
  • Landersia pervaga Macfad.
  • Melothria chlorocarpa Engelm. ex S. Wats.
  • Melothria donnell-smithii Cogn. ex J. D. Smith
  • Melothria donnell-smithii var. hirtella Cogn.
  • Melothria donnell-smithii var. rotundifolia Cogn.
  • Melothria edulis Rafin.
  • Melothria guadalupensis (Sprengel) Cogn.
  • Melothria microcarpa Griseb.
  • Melothria monoica Schrad. ex Steud.
  • Melothria nigra Rafin.
  • Melothria obtusiloba Spruce ex Cogn.
  • Melothria pendula var. chlorocarpa (Engelm.) Cogn.
  • Melothria pervaga Griseb.
  • Melothria punctata Rafin.
  • Melothria repanda Rafin.

Homonyms edit

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Northern America
      • USA (Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas)
  • Continental: Southern America
      • Bahamas, Cayman Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda), Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), Isla Margarita, Tobago, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Peru, Nicaragua, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador, Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Argentina (Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta), S-Brazil (Parana, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay (Alto Parana, Amambay, Central, Cordillera, Itapua, Paraguari, Pres. Hayes), Belize, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Para, Amazonas, Tocantins, Acre, Rondonia), NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do N-Brazil, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe), C-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goias, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul), SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Delta Amacuro, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Yaracuy, Zulia), Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolvar, Boyac, Caldas, Caquet, Cauca, Choc, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nario, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Quindo, Risaralda, Santander, Tolima, Valle)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References edit

Primary references edit

  • Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Tomus I. Pp. [I–XII], 1–560. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page. : 35

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Vernacular names edit

English: Guadeloupe cucumber
español: Fruta de culebra, Jabilla, Necha
中文: 垂瓜果
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