Published August 31, 2010
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Momordica charantia L.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Dept. Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. CEP: 50670 - 901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; e-mail: diogoambientais @ yahoo. com. br
- 2. Dept. Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. CEP: 50670 - 901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Description
35. Momordica charantia L.
Native to Africa and widely distributed throughout the tropics (Kearns 1998).
Selected Vouchers:—Pezinho, Marques et al. 40; Piedade, Albuquerque & Rocha 410 (IPA, ULM).
Notes
Published as part of Araújo, Diogo & Alves, Marccus, 2010, Climbing plants of a fragmented area of lowland Atlantic Forest, Igarassu, Pernambuco (northeastern Brazil), pp. 1-24 in Phytotaxa 8 on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.8.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4893863
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Momordica
- Species
- charantia
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Kearns, D. M. (1998) Cucurbitaceae. In: Steyermark, J. A., Berry, P. E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B. K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 4. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, pp. 431 - 461.