PUBLISHED IN: Histoire Naturelle des Végétaux 6: 211. 1838.

TYPE: Saudi Arabia, Wadi Kamme east of al-Qunfidha, late February, 1825, G. Ehrenberg & Hemprich s.n. (holotype: B [destroyed (Jeffrey, 1967)]; lectotype: MPU).

ETYMOLOGY: Like the genus Dipsacus, in reference to the spiny fruit.

SYNONYMY: Cucumis dipsaceus Spach, Histoire Naturelle des Végétaux 6: 211. 1838.
     Cucumis dipsaceus Wendroth ex Steud. Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda 1: 451. 1841. Annotation: nom. illeg., non Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. ex Spach (1838)

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA:

VERNACULAR NAME: teasel gourd

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: hedgehog gourd
Peru: jaboncillo de campo

CULTIVARS:

DISTRIBUTION: Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, and possibly native to Sudan and southern Egypt. Cultivated and widely adventive in the tropics.

ECOLOGY:

DESCRIPTION:

CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 24

EDIBLE USE: leaf

MEDICINAL USE:

OTHER USE:

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE:

CONSERVATION:

CULTIVATION PRACTICES:

SEEDS AVAILABLE FROM:

LITERATURE:

INTERNET: