Botanical Name / Trichosanthes scabra Lour.

Group: 1 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - I - Dicotyledons Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Trichosanthes
Common sinhala name
Kaak Gedi
Habit
Creeper
Origin
Native
Conservation status
VU-Vulnerable
Legal status
Not protected
Similar species
All vernacular names
Kaak gedi, Kaak wel (S)
Trichosanthes scabra Lour.
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Trichosanthes scabra Lour.
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Trichosanthes scabra Lour.

Annual herb, largely creeping. Stems much branched, angular, dark- to pale-brown hairy, density dependent on age of plant. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina (3.5—)7—9.5 x (3—)6—9(—l1) cm, subcircular to reniform in outline, deeply cordate with usually wide sinus, barely to shallowly lobed, or deeply lobed on same plant, lobes rounded, obtuse, subentire to denticulate, scabrid, shortly hispid above, subdensely short-pubescent beneath; petiole 3—5 cm long, hairy. Flowers solitary, or occasionally 2 in each axil, white. pedunculate, corolla not fimbriate. Male flowers: peduncles 5—12 cm long, densely hairy, calyx-tube c. 1.5 cm long, lobes up to 1.5 cm long, c. 1—1.5 mm wide, linear entire to minutely lobed towards base, whole calyx densely hairy, corolla limb 2 x 1.5 cm, broadly obovate, markedly veined, hairy without, claw to c. 0.75 cm long. Female flowers: similar to male but peduncles shorter, 1—3.5(—5) cm long. Fruit 3 cm diameter, globose, smooth, ripening orange to red. Seeds 7—8 x 2—3 mm, ellipsoid, dark green. (FOC)

Gymnopetalum integrifolium (Roxb.) Kurz



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