- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›begonias, gourds, and allies
- ›gourd family
- ›Momordiceae
Momordica
Momordica is a genus of about 60 species of annual or perennial climbers herbaceous or rarely small shrubs belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia and Australia. Most species produce floral oils and are visited by specialist pollinators in the apid tribe Ctenoplectrini. A molecular phylogeny that includes all species is available (Schaefer and Renner, 2010).
38 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Bitter Melon
speciesMomordica charantia
Gac
speciesMomordica cochinchinensis
Balsam Apple
speciesMomordica balsamina
Momordica foetida
speciesMomordica foetida
Teasle Gourd
speciesMomordica dioica
Momordica humilis
speciesMomordica humilis
Momordica cardiospermoides
speciesMomordica cardiospermoides
Fish-Tail Creeper
speciesMomordica kirkii
Momordica boivinii
speciesMomordica boivinii
Momordica subangulata
speciesMomordica subangulata
Momordica cissoides
speciesMomordica cissoides
Momordica repens
speciesMomordica repens
Momordica anigosantha
speciesMomordica anigosantha
Momordica trifoliolata
speciesMomordica trifoliolata
Momordica rostrata
speciesMomordica rostrata
Momordica sphaeroidea
speciesMomordica sphaeroidea
Momordica cymbalaria
speciesMomordica cymbalaria
Momordica welwitschii
speciesMomordica welwitschii
Momordica sahyadrica
speciesMomordica sahyadrica
Momordica corymbifera
speciesMomordica corymbifera
Momordica silvatica
speciesMomordica silvatica
Momordica calantha
speciesMomordica calantha
Momordica parvifolia
speciesMomordica parvifolia
Momordica cabrae
speciesMomordica cabrae
Momordica peteri
speciesMomordica peteri
Momordica leiocarpa
speciesMomordica leiocarpa
Momordica angustisepala
speciesMomordica angustisepala
Momordica spinosa
speciesMomordica spinosa
Momordica friesiorum
speciesMomordica friesiorum
Momordica enneaphylla
speciesMomordica enneaphylla
Momordica glabra
speciesMomordica glabra
Momordica henriquesii
speciesMomordica henriquesii
Momordica pterocarpa
speciesMomordica pterocarpa
Momordica denticulata
speciesMomordica denticulata
Momordica clarkeana
speciesMomordica clarkeana
Momordica sessilifolia
speciesMomordica sessilifolia
Momordica trifolia
speciesMomordica trifolia
Momordica denudata
speciesMomordica denudata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Trees
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.52
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.223
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.221
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.971
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.12
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.215
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 1 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1687 · p.21
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.240
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Momordica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61370.