CHR 516724 – Momordica charantia L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516724
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
23 July 1998
Database record updated:
26 April 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Momordica charantia L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1995-05-09 (Verbatim: 9 May 1995)
Preferred name:
Momordica charantia L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Violales
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Rarotonga, Arorangi, Ara Metua
Verbatim locality:
Rarotonga, Arorangi, Ara Metua
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4898/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
9 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-09
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Roadside adventive scrub.
Notes:
Vine, tending to smother vegetation by its dense foliage. Flowers yellow, 1 c. 8 mm across, ± patent, obovate, withering by late afternoon. Fruit 5-7 x 2.5-3 cm (including beak) ± ovoid yellow, pendent, with 9 longitudinal rows of soft spiny ribs, when mature dehiscing to form 3 valves which reflex to expose the glossy scarlet-coated seeds c. 1 cm long and ± ellipsoid. An abundant species. Very common.
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