Taxon:
Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng.
Summary
Place of publication:
Syst. veg. 3:14. 1826
Verified:
05/28/2009
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
balsam-pear – Chinese bitter-cucumber – Chinese-cucumber – giant spine gourd – spiny bitter-cucumber – sweet gourd – French
muricie – German
indische Bittergurke – Spanish
cundeamor – Swedish
taggig bittergurka – Transcribed Chinese
mu bie zi – unknown
bhat karela –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangdong | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangxi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guizhou | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hunan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangsu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangxi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Sichuan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Xizang | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Zhejiang | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bangladesh | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Assam | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Nagaland | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Tamil Nadu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Uttar Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | West Bengal | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Papua New Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | North Indian Ocean | India | Andaman and Nicobar | |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Queensland | n. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | s. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Ryukyu Islands | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Indochina | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bangladesh, India [Assam, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal]
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
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NORTH INDIAN OCEAN:
India [Andaman and Nicobar]
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia [Queensland (n.)]
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China (s.)
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Ryukyu Islands]
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
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INDO-CHINA:
Indochina, Thailand
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
potential as vegetable (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:206-210. 1993; Econ Bot 53:108. 1999) – Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):358. 1999; Econ Bot 53:108. 1999) – Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Econ Bot 53:108. 1999) –