The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms ...

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Susanne S. Renner & Arun K. Pandey / PhytoKeys 20: 53–118 (2013)
Alsomitra integrifoliola (Cogn.) Hayata, J. College Science, Imperial Univ. Tokyo 30(1):
121. 1911.
Neoalsomitra integrifoliola (Cogn.) Hutch., Ann. Bot. 6: 99. 1942
Syntypes: The Philippines, Luzon, Cuming 767 (G-DC), Calanony, Cuming 517 (G-
BOISS).
Alsomitra pubigera Prain, J. As. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 67: 292. 1898
Type: Myanmar, Mt. Kachin, King’s collector (herbarium?).
Distribution in India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
& Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Distribution outside India: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, S China (especially Yunnan
and Hainan), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, N Sumatra, the Philippines, east
to NE Australia (Queensland) and the Pacific (Solomon Island and east to Fiji);
absent from the tropical everwet rain forests of Java and Borneo.
Image: Many photos of this large-fruited and large-seeded species can be found online.
GenBank: Sequences from Kocyan et al. (2007), e.g., DQ536573, DQ535830.
Comments: Neoalsomitra has 11 further species in Malesia, S China, New Guinea,
Australia, and Fiji (De Wilde and Duyfjes, 2003; Schaefer and Renner, 2011a). Its
phylogenetic position can be seen in Fig. 1.
57. Schizopepon bicirrhosus (C.B. Clarke) C. Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 34(4): 802. 1980.
Melothria bicirrhosa C.B. Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 2: 627. 1879.
Type: Myanmar (Burma), Griffith 2522 (K).
Schizopepon wardii Chakrav., J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 50(4): 900, pl. 6. 1952.
Type: Assam, Delei Valley, alt. 11000 ft, Rhododendron-Conifer Forest, open Gullies
facing north; August 23, 1928, F. Kingdon Ward 8667 (K).
Distribution in India: Northeast India (Meghalaya, Manipur).
Distribution outside India: China (S. Xizang), Myanmar.
Image: Nothing reliable found online.
GenBank: No published sequences available.
Comments: The synonymization of S. wardii here follows Jeffrey (1980) and Lu et al.
(2011). Chakravarty (1982) instead accepted S. wardii and wrote that it had “affinity
towards S. macranthus Handel-Mazzetti, but differs in the following characters:
(i) leaves not lobed (ii) pedicels longer and (iii) connective produced beyond the
loculi.” Besides its four species listed here, Schizopepon has another five species in
Russia, China, and Japan (Schaefer and Renner, 2011a; Lu et al., 2011).
58. Schizopepon longipes Gagnep., Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 24(5): 378. 1918.
Type: China, Sechuan, near Ta-tsien-lou, Mussot s.n. (P).
Distribution in India: Northeast India.