The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms ...
The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms ...
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Susanne S. Renner & Arun K. Pandey / PhytoKeys 20: 53–118 (2013)<br />
Image: Nothing reliable found online.<br />
GenBank: No published sequences available.<br />
Comments: C.B. Clarke (1879: 608) synomized T. macrosiphon under T. cordata Roxb.<br />
because the protologue does not contain anything uniquely distinctive compared<br />
to the protologue <strong>of</strong> T. cordata. <strong>The</strong> personal herbarium <strong>of</strong> Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz is<br />
at CAL, but that we have not received the requested type image.<br />
70. Trichosanthes costata Bl., Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 15: 933. 1826.<br />
Type: Java, Blume s.n. (L, barcode L0589632), designated by De Wilde and Duyfjes (2006).<br />
Gymnopetalum chinense (Lour.) Merr., Philipp. J. Sci. 15: 256. 1919.<br />
Euonymus chinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 1: 156. 1790 (as Evonymus).<br />
Type: Untraced. Neotype: South China, Levine 1705 (holotype A, designated by De<br />
Wilde and Duyfjes, 2008b).<br />
Tripodanthera cochinchinensis (Lour.) M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 48. 1846.<br />
Gymnopetalum cochinchinense (Lour.) Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 40:<br />
57. 1871.<br />
Bryonia cochinchinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 2: 595. 1790.<br />
Type: Vietnam, Loureiro 595 (BM, http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/viewer/bm000944642).<br />
Momordica tubiflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 711. 1832.<br />
Scotanthus tubiflorus (Roxb.) Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 16: 172, f. 3. 1862,<br />
nom. superfl.<br />
Type: <strong>India</strong>, Wallich Cat. 6749 (K).<br />
Gymnopetalum quinquelobum Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1: 681. 1855.<br />
Type: Java, Soerakarta, T. Horsfield s.n. (BM image seen)<br />
Gymnopetalum heterophyllum Kurz, J. Bot. 13: 326. 1875.<br />
Type: Kamorta Island (part <strong>of</strong> the Nicobar Islands); Wallich Cat. 6711 (K).<br />
Distribution in <strong>India</strong>: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh,<br />
Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.<br />
Distribution outside <strong>India</strong>: China, Java, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.<br />
Images: Photos available upon request from A. Pandey or SSR.<br />
GenBank: Schaefer et al. (2008), most sequences under the name Gymnopetalum chinense,<br />
e.g., HE661294, HQ201978.<br />
Comments: Based on molecular data, Gymnopetalum chinense belongs in the genus<br />
Trichosanthes (De Boer et al., 2012; contra De Wilde and Duyfjes, 2006c). In<br />
Trichosanthes, however, the epithet chinense is already occupied by Trichosanthes<br />
chinensis Ser. (1828). <strong>The</strong> second name in line <strong>of</strong> priority would be G. cochinchinensis,<br />
based on the basionym Bryonia cochinchinensis. However, the combination<br />
T. cochinchinensis (Lour.) M.Roem. (based on T. cucumerina Lour.) blocks that<br />
transfer, too. <strong>The</strong> third available name is T. costata Blume, and this name must be<br />
used for Gymnopetalum chinense if the species is placed in Trichosanthes (De Boer<br />
and Thulin, 2012).
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