Mukia maderaspatana

• Botanical Name : Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem.
• Synonyms : Cucumis maderaspatanus L., Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn.
• Common Name : Chanak-Chibhdi, Madras Pea Pumpkin
• Plant Family : Cucurbitaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 25-27, 29
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Sarita Udyan, Punit Van

About Mukia maderaspatana Plant :

• Habit : Prostrate or climbing, scabridly hairy, monoecious annual herbs.
• Leaves : Entire or shallowly 35 angled or lobed, ovate-triangular, seldom subreniform.
• Flowers : Pale to bright-yellow, male and female in same axil, male pedicellate, female sessile.
• Fruit :
  • Berries, spherical, glabrous, smooth.
  • Seeds grey or light black, ovoid-oblong, compressed, somewhat wrinkled, scrobiculate.
• Flowering and Fruiting time : July-October
• Significance : Found commonly as a wild plant. Throughout , on the hedges or on low herbs or shrubs.