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Momordica charantia

Scientific name: Momordica charantia L.
Botanical family: CUCURBITACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

Haiti:

  • asorosi

Honduras:

  • calaica

Barbados:

  • cerasee

Trinidad and Tobago:

  • corailee
  • popololo
  • sorrow seed

Puerto Rico:

  • cundeamor

Dominican Republic:

  • cundeamor

Venezuela:

  • cundeamor

Dominica:

  • kokouli

Antigua and Barbuda:

  • maiden blush

Guatemala:

  • sorosí

Costa Rica:

  • sorosí

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

Climbing dioecious herb 6 m or more, usually densely branchedwith tendrils.  Leaves alternate, simple 4-12 cm long, deeply5-7 lobed,sinuate with mucronate tips; inflorescence a raceme; female and male flowers yellow, peduncle shorter on female flower, bracts on male peduncle reniform to rounded-cordate; fruit cylindrical, narrowed at both ends, 8-15 cm long, prominent tubercles on the ribs, orange when ripe containing pendulous seeds covered in a red pulp; seed oblong 12-16 mm x 5-9 mm and 3-4 mm thick.

Voucher(s)

Faujour,3,BAR

Pimentel,1111,JBSD

García,2329,JBSD

Girón,167,CGEH

Delens,105,VEN

Lagos-Witte,7,HPMHV

Fonrose,52,SOE

Mejía,s/n,MAPR

Delaigue,19,NHTT


Pharmacopoeia

Ed.2

References

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