PUBLISHED IN: Kew Bulletin 33(2): 357. 1978.

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BASIONYM: Momordica racemosa Steud. Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda 155. 1841.

SYNONYMY: Echinocystis araneosa Griseb., Symbolae ad Floram Argentinam. Zweite… 19: 135. 1879. Syntypes: Lorentz & Hieronymous 551, Argentina: Salta (BR; Isotype: GOET, K); Lorentz & Hieronymus 552, 11 Mar. 1873, Argentina (B).
     Echinocystis lanata Cogn., Diagnoses de Cucurbitacées nouvelles et observations sur les espèces critiques… Premier fascicule 2: 92–93. 1877. Syntypes: Galeotti s.n., no date, Mexico (BR); Liebmann 49, no date, Mexico: Oaxaca: Huatulco (C; Isotype: F).
     Echinocystis macrocarpa Britton. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 17: 284. 1890. Annotation: nom. illeg., non Echinocystis macrocarpa Greene (1885). Type: Rusby 2060, Bolivia: Yungas (Isotype: K).
     Echinocystis polycarpa Cogn., Mémoires Couronnés et Autres Mémoires. Académie Royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique 28: 90. 1878. Annotation: isonym nom. illeg., non Echinocystis polycarpa Cogn. (1877). Type: Fendler 503, 1854–1855, Venezuela (G, MO).
     Echinocystis racemosa (Steud.) Mart. Crov., Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris 15(1): 56. 1954.
     Echinopepon horridus Naudin. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 5, 6: 19-20. 1866. In vallibus prope Mexico, Bourgeau s.n. (Holotype: P). Lectotype: Bourgeau s.n., 1865–1866, cultivated in Paris from seed sent from Mexico by Bourgeau (P; ILT: GH, F,). Lectotype designated by Jeffrey, Kew Bull. 33: 357 (1978).
     Momordica muricata Vell. Florae Fluminensis 10: t. 94. 1831. Annotation: nom. illeg., non Momordica muricata Willd. (1805). Type: Vellozo s.n., Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Fl. Flum. 10: pl. 94).

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DISTRIBUTION: Mexico to Argentina.

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