Family: Cucurbitaceae
Synonym: Anguina tricuspidata (Lour.) Kuntze
Habit: Climber
Habitat: Deciduous forests, also in the
plains
Distribution: India, Himalayas, China, Japan,
Malesia, Tropical Australia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
Flowering
and Fruiting:
June-December
Key
identification features:
Climbers with stems robust, branched, angular-striate, grooved, glabrous;
branches sulcate. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; Inflorescences in racemes;
Flowers 5-10; Male flower: corolla 5-lobed, papillose; Female flowers axillary,
solitary; bracts fimbriate. Berries red with 10 longitudinal orange streaks,
globose. Seeds ovate-oblong, smooth on both surfaces.
Uses: Antioxidant, anticancer,
antibacterial, antifungal, larvicidal activity
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