View source for Momordica ← Momordica You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Momordica |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 1009. 1753 |year=1753 }}, {{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl. ed. |place=5, 440. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Balsam-apple;bitter melon;cundeamor |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Momordica |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Momordica]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin mordicus, biting, alluding to sculptured seed surfaces and margins, appearing as though bitten |volume=Volume 6 |mention_page=page 3, 4, 5 |treatment_page=page 7 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual [perennial], monoecious [dioecious], climbing or trailing; stems glabrous or hairy; roots fibrous; tendrils unbranched [2-branched]. <b>Leaves</b> simple or compound; blade broadly ovate or reniform to orbiculate, palmately 3–7[–9]-lobed, usually pedate, lobes broadly ovate, rhombic-ovate, ovate-oblong, or ovate-elliptic, margins coarsely and widely dentate to crenate-dentate or sinuate-dentate, [mucronulate-dentate or remotely denticulate], surfaces eglandular. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate flowers solitary, [corymbose, racemose, or umbellate], axillary; pistillate flowers solitary, from different axils than staminate; peduncles erect at apex; bracts persistent, ovate-cordate, reniform, or orbiculate-cordate [ovate, rhombic-ovate]. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium obconic; sepals 5, linear to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-acuminate; petals 5, distinct, yellow to bright yellow [greenish yellow], obovate or oblong [suborbiculate], [5–]7–25[–32] mm, glabrous, corolla rotate to broadly and shallowly campanulate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens (2–)3; filaments inserted near hypanthium rim, staminodes absent or 3, glandular. <b>Fruits</b> berrylike or capsular, pendent, red or red-orange to yellow-orange, oblong-fusiform to ellipsoidal, cylindric or ovoid, beaked, fleshy, thick-walled, irregularly tuberculate to muricate, muriculate, or irregularly smooth-ridged, glabrous, apically dehiscent by 3 valves [indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent]. <b>Seeds</b> 10–50, oblong to ovoid-oblong beyond narrowed base, turgid or flattened, red-arillate, margins grooved, surfaces smooth or sculptured. <b>x</b> = 11, 14.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Asia;Africa;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;se Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 59 (2 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=schaefer2010a |text=Schaefer, H. and S. S. Renner. 2010. A three-genome phylogeny of Momordica (Cucurbitaceae) suggests seven returns from dioecy to monoecy and recent long-distance dispersal to Asia. Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 54: 553–560. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Bracts of staminate flowers near peduncle apex, margins dentate to denticulate; leaf lobes and teeth apiculate; fruits 2.5–4(–7) cm. |[[Momordica balsamina|Momordica balsamina]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Bracts of staminate flowers at or proximal to middle of peduncle, margins entire; leaf lobes and teeth sometimes submucronate but not apiculate; fruits 7–25 cm. |[[Momordica charantia|Momordica charantia]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Momordica |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Cucurbitaceae |distribution=Asia;Africa;Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;se Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=schaefer2010a |publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed. |publication year=1753;1754 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_2.xml |genus=Momordica }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Cucurbitaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Cucurbitaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Momordica.