Trichosanthes cucumerina

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Family Cucurbitaceae

Taxonomy: Trichosanthes cucumerina L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (12), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_2 (1), Kew_2019_4 (1), Kooyman_2011 (12), NTH_2022 (5), NTH_2023 (27), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (21). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 53 traits from 95 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: NTH_2022]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 27.25 mm (20-35 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 18.75 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 96.25 mm (45-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 87.5 mm (40-150 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 4 cm (1.5-6.5 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): widely_ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (1); climber_herbaceous (3); herb (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (1); prostrate (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
flowering_time (categorical): nyynnnnnnnnn (1); nyyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; WAH_1998]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 69.66 mg (64-75.32 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 9.33 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_width (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	18	27	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	19	21	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	9	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	12	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NTH_2022	5	5	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2022_2	3	3	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_2	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_4	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Oil content data from Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.