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Melothria pendula

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Internal ID UUID643ff5fe062f9359390369
Scientific name Melothria pendula
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 35 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melothria repanda Raf. New Fl. 4: 14 (1838)
Melothria pervaga Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I. : 289 (1860)
Melothria fluminensis Gardner London J. Bot. 1: 173 (1842)
Melothria guadalupensis (Spreng.) Cogn. Monogr. Phan. 3: 580 (1881)
Melothria nigra Raf. Ann. Nat. 1: 15 (1820)
Apodanthera gracilis Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulphur : 99 (1843)
Bryonia convolvulifolia Schltdl. Linnaea 26: 640 (1855)
Bryonia filiformis Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 , 3: 727 (1832)
Bryonia guadalupensis Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3: 15 (1826)
Bryonia melothria Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 173 (1766)
Cucumis glaber Walter Fl. Carol. : 240 (1788)
Diclidostigma melothrioides Kunze Linnaea 17: 577 (1843)
Melothria nashii Small Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 483 (1898)
Melothria crassifolia Small Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 483 (1898)
Melothria chlorocarpa Engelm. ex S.Watson Bibliogr. Index N. Amer. Bot. 395.
Melothria fluminensis var. microphylla Cogn. Fl. Bras. (Martius) 6(4): 28. 1878 [1 Aug 1878]
Melothria fluminensis var. ovata Cogn. Monogr. Phan. 3: 585 (1881)
Melothria pendula var. chlorocarpa Cogn. Monogr. Phan. 3: 587 (1881)
Melothria fluminensis var. hydrocotylifolia Cogn. Fl. Bras. 6(4): 28 (1878)
Melothria fluminensis var. triangularis Cogn. Fl. Bras. 6(4): 28 (1878)
Melothria pendula var. aspera Cogn. Monogr. Phan. 3: 587 (1881)
Melothria pendula var. crassifolia Cogn. Pflanzenr. , IV, 275 I: 88 (1916)
Melothria pendula var. microcarpa (Griseb.) Cogn. Monogr. Phan. 3: 587 (1881)

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Language Common/alternative name
English guadeloupe cucumber
Chinese 垂瓜果
Chinese 美洲马㼎儿
Chinese 番马瓟

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  • Asia-tropical
    • Malesia
      • Borneo
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Philippines
      • Sulawesi
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Kansas
      • Missouri
      • Oklahoma
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Indiana
      • Pennsylvania
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Bahamas
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Venezuelan Antilles
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000377157
Florida Plant Atlas 3631
Flora of Alabama 1672
USDA Plants MEPE3
Tropicos 9200480
INPN 630139
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:293293-1
The Plant List kew-2373217
Open Tree Of Life 487827
Observations.org 199478
NCBI Taxonomy 386192
Nature Serve 2.143502
IPNI 293293-1
iNaturalist 131557
GBIF 2874550
EPPO MEEPE
EOL 585689
Elurikkus 322944
USDA GRIN 301051
Wikipedia Melothria_pendula

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Scientific Literature Top

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Wax “tails” enable planthopper nymphs to self-right midair and land on their feet McDonald CL, Alcalde GT, Jones TC III, Laude RA, Yap SA, Bhamla MS bioRxiv 16-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11042284
doi:10.1101/2024.04.15.589523
PMID:38659822
Whitefly-Transmitted Viruses of Cucurbits in the Southern United States Devendran R, Kavalappara SR, Simmons AM, Bag S Viruses 20-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10675411
doi:10.3390/v15112278
PMID:38005954
Responses of Caribbean Mangroves to Quaternary Climatic, Eustatic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change: A Review Rull V Plants (Basel) 13-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9786987
doi:10.3390/plants11243502
PMID:36559614
Manipulation of Whitefly Behavior by Plant Viruses Zhao K, Liu SS, Wang XW, Yang JG, Pan LL Microorganisms 06-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9782533
doi:10.3390/microorganisms10122410
PMID:36557663
Modulation of Cytoskeleton, Protein Trafficking, and Signaling Pathways by Metabolites from Cucurbitaceae, Ericaceae, and Rosaceae Plant Families Patel A, Rasheed A, Reilly I, Pareek Z, Hansen M, Haque Z, Simon-Fajardo D, Davies C, Tummala A, Reinhardt K, Bustabad A, Shaw M, Robins J, Vera Gomez K, Suphakorn T, Camacho Gemelgo M, Law A, Lin K, Hospedales E, Haley H, Perez Martinez JP, Khan S, DeCanio J, Padgett M, Abramov A, Nanjundan M Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 10-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9698530
doi:10.3390/ph15111380
PMID:36355554
Stem cambial variants of Taiwan lianas Yang SZ, Chen PH, Chen JJ Bot Stud 24-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9509506
doi:10.1186/s40529-022-00358-5
PMID:36153445
The Application of Ultrasound in Honey: Antioxidant Activity, Inhibitory Effect on α-amylase and α-glucosidase, and In Vitro Digestibility Assessment Peláez-Acero A, Garrido-Islas DB, Campos-Montiel RG, González-Montiel L, Medina-Pérez G, Luna-Rodríguez L, González-Lemus U, Cenobio-Galindo AD Molecules 08-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9504444
doi:10.3390/molecules27185825
PMID:36144558
Weeds Enhance Pollinator Diversity and Fruit Yield in Mango Kleiman BM, Koptur S, Jayachandran K Insects 13-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8704218
doi:10.3390/insects12121114
PMID:34940201
Green roofs in the tropics: design considerations and vegetation dynamics Grullón – Penkova IF, Zimmerman JK, González G Heliyon 19-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7452574
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04712
PMID:32904331
Multi-driver and multi-scale assessment of vine community structure and composition across a complex tropical environmental matrix Delgado DL, Restrepo C PLoS One 10-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6510454
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215274
PMID:31075096
Cytogenetic relationships among Citrullus species in comparison with some genera of the tribe Benincaseae (Cucurbitaceae) as inferred from rDNA distribution patterns Li KP, Wu YX, Zhao H, Wang Y, Lü XM, Wang JM, Xu Y, Li ZY, Han YH BMC Evol Biol 18-Apr-2016
PMCID:PMC4835933
doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0656-6
PMID:27090090
Shade treatment affects structure and recovery of invasive C4 African grass Echinochloa pyramidalis López Rosas H, Moreno-Casasola P, Espejel González VE Ecol Evol 01-Mar-2015
PMCID:PMC4377275
doi:10.1002/ece3.1434
PMID:25859337
Melothria domingensis (Cucurbitaceae), an endangered Caribbean endemic, is a Cayaponia Schaefer H, Nee MH PhytoKeys 06-Dec-2012
PMCID:PMC3666606
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.18.3914
PMID:23730193
Checklist of vascular plants of the Department of Ñeembucú, Paraguay Egea JD, Peña-Chocarro M, Espada C, Knapp S PhytoKeys 30-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC3281576
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.9.2279
PMID:22371688
Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events Schaefer H, Heibl C, Renner SS Proc Biol Sci 25-Nov-2008
PMCID:PMC2664369
doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1447
PMID:19033142

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