Group:
1 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - I - Dicotyledons
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Genus:
Trichosanthes
Common sinhala name:
Dummella
Habit:
Creeper
Origin:
Native
National conservation status:
LC-Least Concern
Legal status:
Not protected
Similar species:
All vernacular names:
Dum-mella, Kunu-mella, Dummella (Sinhala), Common fringed-flover vine, Snake gourd (English), Pudal / Pudol (Tamil)
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Contributors for Images:
FlowerSL (ID-PMR), Sanjeewa Rupasinghe (ID-SR), Aruna Yasapathila (ID-AY), Jecob de Vlas (ID-JdV)
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Annual. dioecious. or rarely monoecious, slender, stems glabrous or occasionally slightly hairy. Leaves subcircular or more usually reniform in out line. deeply cordate: lamina 4.5—12 x 5—14.5 cm, thin, shallowly to deeply 5 lobed, lobes rounded or obtuse, rarely subacute, denticulate to dentate, sparsely long hirsute above to subglabrous, subglabrous to shortly pubescent beneath, occasionally with few longer hairs on main venation; petiole 2.5—4 cm long, densely, minutely pubescent, at times with longer, white hairs. Flowers white. Male flowers in racemes or single-pedunculate, often both types inserted on stem together; racemes 9—18 cm long, 4—6-flowered; calyx tube 2—3 cm long, dilated towards apex; lobes c. 2 mm long, narrowly lanceolate. acute, spreading; petals c. 1 cm long, lanceolate-oblong with tuft of crisped laciniae at apex. Female flowers single-pedunculate, where plant monoecious, frequently replacing single-pedunculate male flower in male in florescence. Fruit 4.5—7.5 x 1.5—2.5 cm, broadly ovoid-conical or ovoid- ellipsoid, tapering at each end, long beak, smooth, pale green when young with white to cream longitudinal stripes, ripening bright red; pericarp thin. Seeds up to 1.25 cm long, compressed, surrounded by red pulp. (FOC)
Trichosanthes cucumerina var. laciniosa Thw.
