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

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Hodgsonia macrocarpa (Blume) Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 349. 1881.
Trichosanthes macrocarpa Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 15: 935. 1826.
Type: Java, Mt. Salak, Blume s.n. (L).
Trichosanthes listeri Chakrav., J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 50(4): 895, pl. 2. 1952.
Type: Bangladesh [Bengal], Chittagong Hill Tracts, Burkul, March 4, 1876, Lister 349
as to the flowers (CAL photo available from SSR). As Jeffrey (1982) noted, the
type is a mixed collection, the flowers coming from Hodgsonia macrocarpa (now H.
heteroclita), the shoot from Thladiantha cordifolia. Jeffrey designated the flowers as
the lectotype.
Comment: Hodgsonia has two species, H. macrocarpa in Java, and H. heteroclita in
Northeast India, Bhutan, South China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
Thailand, and Peninsular Malaysia. Jeffrey’s (1980) and Chakravarty’s (1982) listing
of this name for India is based on a broader species concept, in which H. heteroclita
was part of H. macrocarpa (De Wilde and Duyfjes, 2001).
Trichosanthes thwaitesii Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 387. 1881, nom. illegit.
Zanonia heterosperma Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 29. 1831.
Gomphogyne heterosperma (Wall.) Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 46: 105. 1877.
Alsomitra heterosperma (Wall.) M.Roem., Syn. Monogr. 2: 118. 1846.
Hemsleya heterosperma (Wall.) C. Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 36: 739. 1982.
Type: Myanmar (Burma), Ava, Mt. Taong Daong, Wallich 1038 (K-W 3728).
Comment: Listed by Jeffrey (1982) as occurring in India, but according to De Wilde
et al. (2007), the species is restricted to East Myanmar and Thailand.
Zehneria perpusilla (Blume) Bole & M.R. Almeida, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 79(2):
315. 1983.
Melothria perpusilla (Blume) Cogn. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 607. 1881.
Cucurbita perpusilla Blume, Cat. Gew. Buitenzorg (Blume) 105. 1823.
Lectotype: Java, Blume s.n. (L, barcode L0048312).
Comment: According to De Wilde and Duyfjes (2006), this Javanese species does not
occur in India.
Zehneria wallichii (C.B. Clarke) C. Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 34(4): 802. 1980.
Neoachmandra wallichii (C.B. Clarke) W. J.de Wilde & Duyfjes, Blumea 51(1): 32. 2006.
Melothria wallichii C.B. Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 2: 626. 1879.
Type: Myanmar, Pyay (formerly Prome), Wallich 6706D (K-W).
This species, included in Jeffrey’s (1980) Indian checklist, was collected in the center
of Myanmar and appears not to occur in India. Chakravarty (1982) does not mention
the name.