Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad. [Cucurbitaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
achoccha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
achocha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
achojcha	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
caiba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
caifa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
caigua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
caihua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
caygua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cayua	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
concombre grimpant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jaiba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
korila	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lady's-slipper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pepino de comer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pepino de rellenar	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pepino hueco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
slipper goard	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
stuffing cucumber	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
stuffing gourd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
stuffing-cucumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tamiá-de-cipó	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tamiá-de-comer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wild cu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wild cucumber	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit, bud, aerial part, leaf		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
Dried fruit, Seed		Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Anguria pedatisecta Nees & Mart. Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 12: 10 (1824), orth. var.
Anguria pedisecta Nees & Mart. Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 12: 10 (1824).
Apodanthera pedisecta (Nees & Mart.) Cogn. Diagn. Cucurb. Nouv. 2: 17 (1877).
Cyclanthera digitata Arn. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 280 (1841), nom. nud.
Cyclanthera edulis Naudin ex C.Huber Nursery Cat. (Charles Huber Bros. and Co.) 1872(Cat. Graines): 3 (1872).
Cyclanthera pedata var. edulis (Naudin ex C.Huber) Cogn. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 826 (1881).
Cyclanthera pedata f. edulis (Naudin ex C.Huber) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 340 (1894).
Momordica pedata L. Sp. Pl.: 1009 (1753).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schard.	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrader	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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