• Family : CUCURBITACEAE
  (Gourd Or Melon Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KHARBOOZA FAMILY (खरबूजा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CUCURBITACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Citrullus lanatus var. fistulosus (Steward) Babu
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
• Common name : Water melon
• Vernacular name : Kallagara kaya, Kalingara kaya (Telugu); Churakka, Peykommutti, Thannimathan, Vattakka, Vatthakka (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Garden plant
• Comments / notes : Fruits large and edible.
• Flower, Fruit : August-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district
• World Distribution : Africa, cultivated in Tropical and warmer zones of the World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Momordica lanata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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