Melothria pendulaL.

creeping cucumber

WFO wfo-0000377157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Melothria pendula, photographed by cft
fig. a cft, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-07 / obs. 204243689
Melothria pendula, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. b 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199366319
Melothria pendula, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. c Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204537063
Melothria pendula, photographed by 古淑玲
fig. d 古淑玲, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192644567
Melothria pendula, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. e Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179429818
Melothria pendula, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182392823
Melothria pendula, photographed by chiuluan
fig. g chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182319328
Melothria pendula, photographed by zancat
fig. h zancat, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179556694

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Flowering n = 923 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 923 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Apodanthera gracilis Benth.
  • Bryonia convolvulifolia Schltdl.
  • Bryonia filiformis Roxb.
  • Bryonia guadalupensis Spreng.
  • Bryonia melothria Crantz
  • Cucumis glaber Walter
  • Diclidostigma melothrioides Kunze
  • Melothria chlorocarpa Engelm. ex S.Watson
  • Melothria crassifolia Small
  • Melothria fluminensis Gardner
  • Melothria fluminensis var. hydrocotylifolia Cogn.
  • Melothria fluminensis var. microphylla Cogn.
  • Melothria fluminensis var. ovata Cogn.
  • Melothria fluminensis var. triangularis Cogn.
  • Melothria guadalupensis (Spreng.) Cogn.
  • Melothria nashii Small
  • Melothria nigra Raf.
  • Melothria pendula var. aspera Cogn.
  • Melothria pendula var. chlorocarpa Cogn.
  • Melothria pendula var. crassifolia (Small) Cogn.
  • Melothria pendula var. microcarpa (Griseb.) Cogn.
  • Melothria pendula var. pendula
  • Melothria pervaga (Macfad.) Griseb.
  • Melothria repanda Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.