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|accepted_name=Momordica charantia subsp. charantia
|accepted_authority=[F I]
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|name=Momordica charantia var. abbreviata
|authority=Seringe
|rank=variety
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|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Momordica;Momordica charantia;Momordica charantia subsp. charantia
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Momordica charantia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Momordica charantia subsp. charantia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
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|treatment_page=page 8
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1.5–3.5(–6) cm; blade suborbiculate to orbiculate, deeply palmately 5–7-lobed, 5–10(–12) cm, base cordate, lobes ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, sinuses 50–90% to base, margins coarsely and widely dentate to crenate-dentate, leaf lobes and teeth sometimes submucronate, not apiculate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate peduncles bracteate at or proximal to middle, bracts sessile, reniform or orbiculate-cordate, margins entire; pistillate peduncles ebracteate. <b>Petals</b> bright yellow, obovate to oblong-obovate, 7–25 mm. <b>Fruits</b> red or orange to yellow-orange, cylindric or ellipsoidal to oblong-fusiform or ovoid, 7–25 cm, beak becoming less prominent at maturity, surface usually minutely tuberculate to muricate and muriculate, sometimes irregularly smooth-ridged. <b>Seeds</b> oblong, 10–15 mm. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, roadsides, fencerows, thickets, hammock edges, fields, ditches, canal banks, shell mounds, orange groves, sand pine scrub, flatwoods, floodplain woods
|elevation=10–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Pa.;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;se Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>No documentation has been found for a report of <i>Momordica charantia</i> in Texas. The species is apparently becoming common in Florida, where it is known to be naturalized in many counties. It is grown as a crop in many countries for the young fruits, which are edible before an extreme bitterness develops in the mature fruits.</p><!--
--><p>Two forms of <i>Momordica charantia</i> in the New World can be distinguished: the ubiquitous weed of the humid lowland tropics and subtropics, growing spontaneously and not cultivated or eaten except occasionally and opportunistically for the pulp; and the domesticated forms, which are seen in Asian markets. The cultivated forms do not escape (M. Nee, pers. comm.).</p><!--
--><p><i>Momordica charantia</i> subsp. macroloba Achigan-Dako & Blattner is endemic to the Dahomey Gap and Sudano-Guinean phytoregion of Benin and Togo in west-central Africa.</p>
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name=Momordica charantia subsp. charantia
|authority=[F I]
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Momordica charantia var. abbreviata
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|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, roadsides, fencerows, thickets, hammock edges, fields, ditches, canal banks, shell mounds, orange groves, sand pine scrub, flatwoods, floodplain woods
|elevation=10–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Pa.;Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;South America;Europe;se Asia;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
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|genus=Momordica
|species=Momordica charantia
|subspecies=Momordica charantia subsp. charantia
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