Schrad., Cucurbitaceae
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Schrad., Cucurbitaceae |
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Present on Pacific Islands? yes
Primarily a threat at high elevations? no
Risk assessment results: Evaluate, score: 1 (Go to the risk assessment).
Common name(s): [more details]
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Chinese: xiao que gua |
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English: cyclanthera, wild cucumber |
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French: concombre grimpant |
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Spanish: achogcha, caiba, caigua, caihau, caygua, pepino de comer |
Habit: vine
Description: "Annual vines to several meters long, the stems branched, glabrous; leaves on glabrous petioles 1-8 cm long, blades broadly ovate to orbicular, pedately lobate, margins serrulate to deeply dentate, essentially glabrous, 2.5-20 cm long and about as broad, lateral leaflets pedately lobed; staminate flowers: in panicles with few-several (rarely many) flowers confined to upper half or less of peduncle, receptacle to 3.5 mm wide, sepals obscure or to 2 mm long, corolla obscurely papillate, whitish, 3-6 mm across, filament column to 0.75 mm long, androecial head to 1.5 mm wide; pistillate flowers: subsessile, stigmas sessile, to 2.5 mm broad, with a depressed center; fruiting peduncles 0.5-2 cm long; fruits greenish white, striate, lacrimiform and somewhat gibbous, not explosively dehiscent, to 15 cm long and 6 cm in diameter, setae none or few, confined to abaxial part of the fruit; seeds black, more or less turtle-shaped, 12-16 mm long" (Nash, 1976; p. 336).
Habitat/ecology: In Guatemala, "perhaps only in cultivation or as an escape, about 1,500 m" (Nash, 1976; p. 336).
Propagation: Seed
Native range: Origin South America, cultivated in the tropics (GRIN).
Presence:
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
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Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
Isabela Group |
Isabela Island |
introduced
cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)
var. edulis |
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Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
Isabela Group |
Volcán Sierra Negra, Isabela Island |
introduced
cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)
var. edulis |
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Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
San Cristóbal Group |
San Cristóbal Island |
introduced
cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)
var. edulis |
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Ecuador (Galápagos Islands)
Santa Cruz Group |
Santa Cruz Island |
introduced
cultivated |
Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)
var. edulis |
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State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands |
O‘ahu Island |
Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1986) (voucher ID: BISH 503198)
Taxon name on voucher: Cyclanthera pedata Schrad. |
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
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China
China |
China (People's Republic of) |
introduced
cultivated |
Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong (2011)
Cultivated. Xizang, Yunnan. |
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Colombia
Colombia |
Colombia (Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica |
Costa Rica (Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
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Ecuador (Mainland)
Ecuador |
Ecuador (Republic of) (continental) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
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Guatemala
Guatemala |
Guatemala (Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
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Honduras
Honduras |
Honduras (Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
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Mexico
Mexico |
Mexico (United Mexican States) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) |
Additional information:
Additional online information about Cyclanthera pedata is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).
Information about Cyclanthera pedata as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).
Taxonomic information about Cyclanthera pedata may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
References:
Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1986. Voucher specimen #BISH503198(Lau, J. 2368).
Charles Darwin Foundation. 2008. Database inventory of introduced plant species in the rural and urban zones of Galapagos. Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos, Ecuador.
Charles Darwin Research Station. 2005. CDRS Herbarium records.
Nash, Dorothy L. 1976. Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana: Botany. Vol. 24, Part XI, No. 4. Chicago Natural History Museum.
U. S. Government. 2011. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (on-line resource).
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.
Zhengyi, Wu/Raven, Peter H./Deyuan, Hong. 2011. Flora of China (online resource).