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Cucumis callosus
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Family:
CUCURBITACEAE
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Citation: Cucumis callosus (Rottl.) Cogn. ex Cogn. & Harms., Pflanzenr., Cucurb.-Cucum. 129. 1924; Chakrav., Fasc. Fl. Ind. 11: 31. 1982; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 212. 1990.
Bryonia callosa Rottl. in Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften ser.4. 210. 1803.
Cucumis trigonus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 722. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:619.1879p.p.; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 535(378). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Vellari, Kattuvellari, Pekkummatti
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Muskmelon, Sweetmelon
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Description:
Perennial climbers; stems 1.0-1.5 m, slender, angular, rough with short, rigid hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-6 cm long, suborbicular, base cordate, palmately 5-7 lobed, lobes round or ovate-oblong, often narrowed at the base, apex round, dentate or lobulate; petioles 2-6 cm long, slender, hispid. Plants monoecious. Male flowers often solitary; peduncles 0.5-1.0 cm long; calyx-tube narrow campanulate, ca. 3 mm long; lobes subulate, 1.5-2.0 mm long; corolla yellow, 6-7 mm long, lobes ovate, oblong, acute; staminal filaments short; anthers ca. 2 mm long, appendage of the connective shorter than anthers; pistillode ca. 1 mm long. Female flowers: peduncles 2-3 cm long; ovary densely hairy; style 1.5-2.0 mm long; stigmas converging, ca. 2.5 mm long. Fruits obovoid; seeds ca. 5 x 2 mm, 1 mm thick, oblong, white.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-January
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Scrub jungles
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Distribution:
West Asia, Indo-Malesia, North Africa and Australia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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