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[[File:Map Cucumis anguria.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild and planted)]][[File:Linedrawing Cucumis anguria.gif|thumb|1, part of flowering stem; 2, fruit of wild plant; 3, fruit of cultivated plant. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin]][[File:Cucumis anguria RRS.jpg|thumb|fruiting plant habit]][[File:Cucumis anguria A.JPG|thumb|fruit of wild variety in cross section]][[File:Cucumis anguria C.JPG|thumb|young plant, wild growing, showing early upright stem]][[File:Cucumis anguria B.JPG|thumb|fruits of wild variety at the end of the growing season]]
<big>''[[Cucumis anguria]]'' L.</big>
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:Protologue: Sp. pl. 2: 1011 (1753).
== Synonyms ==
*''Cucumis longipes'' Hook.f. (1871).
== Vernacular names ==
*West Indian gherkin, bur cucumber, gooseberry gourd (En). *Concombre antillais, cornichon des Antilles, ti-concombre, macissis (Fr). *Pepino das Antilhas, cornichão das Antillas, machiche, maxixé (Po).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Annual monoecious herb with trailing or scandent stems, having solitary, simple, setose tendrils 3–6 cm long; stems grooved, with bristle-like hairs. *Leaves alternate, simple; stipules absent; petiole (2–)6–13 cm long, hispid to setose; blade broadly ovate in outline, 3–12 cm × 2–12 cm, shallowly to deeply palmately 3–5(–7)-lobed, with punctate to hispidulous hairs on both surfaces. *Flowers unisexual, regular, 5-merous; sepals narrowly triangular, 1–3 mm long; petals united at base, 4–8 mm long, yellow; male flowers in 2–10-flowered fascicles, with pedicel 0.5–3 cm long, stamens 3; female flowers solitary, with pedicel 2–10 cm long, ovary inferior, ellipsoid, 7–9 mm long, softly spiny, stigma 3-lobed. *Fruit an ellipsoid to subglobose berry 3–4.5 cm × 2–3.5 cm, on a stalk 2.5–21 cm long, beset with soft, thin spines with transparent tips, green, ripening yellow, many-seeded. *Seeds ellipsoid, 5–6 mm long, compressed with rounded margins, smooth.
== Other botanical information ==
== Author(s) ==
* M.H. Wilkins-Ellert , 4246 W. Flying Diamond, Tucson, Arizona 85742, United States
== Correct citation of this article ==
Wilkins-Ellert, M.H., 2004. '''Cucumis anguria''' L. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Grubben, G.J.H. & Denton, O.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.
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