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Benincasa
Sign in to saveBenincasa is a genus of flowering plants in the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae. It includes two species native to Indomalaya and Australasia: Benincasa fistulosa – tinda Benincasa hispida – wax gourd
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyCucurbitaceae
Native toBismarck Archipelago, Borneo, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Pakistan, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi
Observations recorded1,579
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Collections
- US, MEL, RSA, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Australia, Thailand
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Benincasa is a genus of flowering plants in the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae. It includes two species native to Indomalaya and Australasia: Benincasa fistulosa – tinda Benincasa hispida – wax gourd
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benincasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.