Hodgsonia
Sign in to saveHodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.
Species
Genus
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassPycnogonida
- OrderPantopoda
- FamilyPhoxichilidiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Collections
- NY, MO, MICH, TEX, MNHN, K
- Recorded in
- India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
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- 油渣果属
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Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.
Hodgsonia was named after Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1853 by the British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, who examined the plant under Hodgson's hospitality in the Himalaya.
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