Family:
Cucurbitaceae Juss.

Thladiantha Bunge

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Russian Far East to Tropical Asia.

[FTEA]

Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1967

Morphology General Habit
Medium-sized climbers
Morphology Leaves
Leaves simple or less often pedately 3–7-foliolate
Morphology General Tendrils
Tendrils simple or proximally or distally bifid
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers of medium size, usually yellow, dioecious Male flowers racemose, less often solitary; receptacle-tube short; lobes entire, linear or lanceolate; petals 5, free, entire, 1–3 with an incurved scale inside at the base; stamens 5, free, 4 in two pairs with one single, all 1-thecous; thecae straight Female flowers solitary or few and fasciculate; ovules horizontal, many; style 1, stigmas 3
sex Male
Male flowers racemose, less often solitary; receptacle-tube short; lobes entire, linear or lanceolate; petals 5, free, entire, 1–3 with an incurved scale inside at the base; stamens 5, free, 4 in two pairs with one single, all 1-thecous; thecae straight
sex Female
Female flowers solitary or few and fasciculate; ovules horizontal, many; style 1, stigmas 3
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, tuberculate, ribbed or smooth
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds small, pyriform in outline and compressed, with rough testa and grooved margins, or oblong- or ovate-truncate in outline with flat ± prominently ridged faces and rounded margins.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Inner Mongolia, Jawa, Khabarovsk, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Primorye, Sakhalin, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam

Introduced into:

Altay, Austria, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Hungary, Illinois, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Manitoba, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Caucasus, Ontario, Québec, Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Wisconsin

Thladiantha Bunge appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 2: 103 (1835)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.

Literature

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor.: 29 (1833)

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0