Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Climber
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Cucumis bicirrha Forst. ex Guill. |
| synonym | Cucumis lagenarius (Moench) Dum. |
| synonym | Cucumis mairei H. Lév. |
| synonym | Cucurbita idololatrica Willd. |
| synonym | Cucurbita lagenaria L. |
| synonym | Cucurbita leucantha Duchesne ex Lam. |
| synonym | Cucurbita pepo Vell. |
| synonym | Cucurbita pyriformis M. Roem. |
| synonym | Cucurbita siceraria Molina |
| synonym | Cucurbita vittata Bl. |
| synonym | Lagenaria abyssinica var. somaliensis (Chiov.) Cufod. |
| synonym | Lagenaria bicornuta Chakrav. |
| synonym | Lagenaria cochinchinensis M. Roem. |
| synonym | Lagenaria hispida Ser. |
| synonym | Lagenaria idolatrica Ser. |
| synonym | Lagenaria lagenaria (L.) Cockerell |
| synonym | Lagenaria leucantha (Duchesne ex Lam.) Rusby |
| synonym | Lagenaria siceraria var. laevisperma Millán |
| synonym | Lagenaria verrucosa Hort. |
| synonym | Lagenaria virginalis Hort. |
| synonym | Lagenaria vittata Ser. |
| synonym | Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. |
| synonym | Lagenaria vulgaris subsp. asiatica Kobyakova |
| synonym | Pepo lagenarius Moench |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Annual, climber or trailer. Tendril 2-fid. Stem densely hairy. Leaves palmate, broadly ovate, reniform or sub-orbicular, cordate, obscurely 3-5-lobed, lobes rounded, 3.0-23 x 4-23 cm; petiole 2.7-13 cm long with a pair of small apical lateral conical glands. Both male and female flowers solitary; male peduncle as long as petiole, female somewhat shorter. Corolla white, petals of male flower obovate, apiculate, 2.7-4.5 cm long, 1.8-3.7 cm broad. Staminal filaments 3-4 mm long; anthers oblong, coherent, included; thecae triplicate. Petals of female flowers c. 30 x 24 mm. Ovary ovoid, villous, 11-17 mm long, 6-8 mm across. Fruit large, subglobose, ellipsoid, lageniform, sometimes biventricose, green or greenish-yellow, hairy, indehiscent. Seeds white, oblong, compressed, slightly tapered, slightly 2-horned on the shoulders, 7-20 mm long.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Climber
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Plains to Mid Altitude, Cultivated
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Cultivated
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Tropical Asia and Africa; cultivated in warmer regions of the world
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Maharashtra: Pune
Karnataka: Bangalore, Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha
Local Distribution
Throughout Assam
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Sowa-Rigpa
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1276
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1276 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Lagenaria leucantha (Duch.) Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. 6: 43. 1896.
- Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Gen. 3: 25, t. 2. 1825; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 613. 1879.
- Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley, Publ. Field Columbian Mus. Bot. ser. Chicago 3: 435. 1930; Chakrav., Fasc. Fl. Ind. 11: 65. 1982; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 120. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 292. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 217. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 291. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 328. 2009.
- Cucurbita lagenaria L., Sp. Pl. 1010. 1753.
- Cucurbita siceraria Molina, Sagg. Chile 133. 1782.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1276
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Lagenaria leucantha (Duch.) Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. 6: 43. 1896.
- Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Gen. 3: 25, t. 2. 1825; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 613. 1879.
- Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley, Publ. Field Columbian Mus. Bot. ser. Chicago 3: 435. 1930; Chakrav., Fasc. Fl. Ind. 11: 65. 1982; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 120. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 292. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 217. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 291. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 328. 2009.
- Cucurbita lagenaria L., Sp. Pl. 1010. 1753.
- Cucurbita siceraria Molina, Sagg. Chile 133. 1782.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1276
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Cucurbitales |
| Family | Cucurbitaceae |
| Genus | Lagenaria |
| Species | Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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