Momordica

Accepted species 50 Documented here 9 Family Cucurbitaceae

Accepted species 50 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Momordica charantia L. 1,040 documented
Momordica balsamina L. 86 documented
Momordica foetida Schumach. 73 documented
Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng. 35 documented
Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. 25 documented
Momordica cardiospermoides Klotzsch 16 documented
Momordica boivinii Baill. 7 documented
Momordica humilis (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey 6 documented
Momordica rostrata Zimm. 3 documented
Momordica kirkii (Hook.f.) C.Jeffrey 1 below the evidence gate
Momordica angolensis R.Fernandes 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica angustisepala Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica anigosantha Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica argillicola Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica cabraei (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica calantha Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica camerounensis Keraudren 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica cissoides Planch. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica clarkeana King 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica cordata Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica corymbifera Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica cymbalaria Fenzl ex Naudin 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica denticulata Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica denudata (Thwaites) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica dissecta Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica enneaphylla Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica friesiorum (Harms) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica gilgiana Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica glabra Zimm. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica henriquesii Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica jeffreyana Keraudren 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica leiocarpa Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica littorea Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica macrosperma (Cogn.) Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica mossambica H.Schaef. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica multiflora Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica obtusisepala Keraudren 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica parvifolia Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica peteri Zimm. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica pterocarpa Hochst. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica racemiflora Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica repens Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica rumphii W.J.de Wilde 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica sahyadrica Kattuk. & V.T.Antony 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica sessilifolia Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica silvatica Jongkind 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica spinosa (Gilg) Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica subangulata Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica trifoliolata Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Momordica welwitschii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.