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GenBank: No published sequences available.
Comments: The genus Siraitia has five species, four in India, Indonesia, Peninsular
Malaysia, Thailand, South and Southwest China, and one Southern Tanzania and
Southeast Nigeria (Schaefer and Renner, 2011a, b). The cucurbitane-type triterpene
glycoside constituents of S. grosvenorii are the source of plant-derived sweeteners.
62. Solena amplexicaulis (Lam.) Gandhi in Saldanha & Nicolson, Fl. Hassan Distr.
179. 1976.
Bryonia amplexicaulis Lam., Encycl. 1: 496. 1785.
Karivia amplexicaulis (Lam.) Arn., J. Bot. 3: 275. 1841.
Melothria amplexicaulis (Lam.) Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 621. 1881.
Type: S India, Sonnerat s.n. (P-LAM).
Distribution in India: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala. Endemic.
Images: efloraofindia at https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cucurbitaceae/solena/solena-amplexicaulis
GenBank: Sequences from Chen et al. (2010), e.g., GQ436395, GQ435029.
Comments: Following De Wilde and Duyfjes (2004c), Solena comprises three or four
species while in the past, only one species, S. amplexicaulis, was recognized, which
supposedly ranged from NE Afghanistan through India and Sri Lanka. Based on
several vegetative and reproductive differences, De Wilde and Duyfjes instead recognize
S. amplexicaulus from South India, S. umbellata from South India and Sri
Lanka, and S. heterophylla with two subspecies, one from NE Afghanistan eastward,
the other in N India and east to China. The Flora of China (Lu et al., 2011)
follows this treatment.
63. Solena heterophylla Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 2: 514. 1790.
subsp. heterophylla
Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 618. 1881.
Type: Vietnam, Loureiro s.n. (BM http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/bm000944657).
Bryonia rheedei Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 15: 925. 1826
Karivia rheedei (Blume) M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 45. 1846
Type: Java, Blume s.n. (L, Barcode: L0127474).
Bryonia sagittata Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 15: 925. 1826.
Type: Java, Blume s.n. (L, Barcode: L0127475).
Melothria ovata Cogn. in Engl. Pflanzenr. IV. 275, 1 (Heft 66): 114. 1916.
Type: India, Sikkim, near Labdah, 650 m a.s.l., Aug. 1884, collector unknown (G-BOISS).
Distribution in India: Widely distributed all over India (Chakravarty, 1982).
Distribution outside India: NE Afghanistan, Indonesia (Java), Peninsular Malaysia,
Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam (Lu et al., 2011).
GenBank: Sequences from Kocyan et al. (2007), e.g., DQ536737, DQ536870.