var. anguina

De Wilde, Willem J. J. O. & Duyfjes, Brigitta E. E., 2012, Keys to and checklist of species of the genus Trichosanthes L. (Cucurbitaceae) in Indochina, Adansonia (3) 34 (2), pp. 265-278 : 269-270

b. var. anguina (L.) Haines

The Botany of Bihar and Orissa 3: 388 (1922); C.Jeffrey, Kew Bulletin 34: 797 (1980b); W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes, Sandakania 17: 79 (2008). — Trichosanthes anguina L., Species Plantarum ed.2:1008 (1753); Keraudren-Aymonin, Flore du Cambodge,du Laos et duViêtnam 15: 89 (1975). — Type: “ Anguina Sinensis, flore albo, elegantissimo, capillamentis tenuissimis ornato, fructu longo intorto, sub initium ex albo, & viridi variegato, per maturitatem prorsus rubro ” in Micheli, Nova plantarum genera: 12, tab. 9 (1729), (lecto-, designated by Jeffrey in Jarvis et al. [1993: 95]) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Widespread; cultivated.

REMARK

The var. anguina was accepted as a species by Keraudren-Aymonin (1975: 89).