Kindly identify PD:005

[Parul Sethi]

Date: 11th November 2023

Place: Outside Jodhpur city on Jodhpur-Jaipur Highway

Habit: Climber

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Parul Sethi

[Saroj Kasaju]

Momordica balsamina L. 

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[Parul Sethi]

Thank you. 

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Parul Sethi

[Saroj Kasaju]

OK Parul !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Why not 
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/13/momordica-charantia/?

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[J.M. Garg]

Any feedback, Saroj ji?

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[Saroj Kasaju]

I guess it matches : https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:293397-1

https://www.gbif.org/species/2874582

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[J.M. Garg]

Appears possible going by the small size of the fruit as per keys from Flora of Pakistan:

1	Flowers monoecious. Fruit tuberculate		(2)
+	Flowers dioecious. Fruit densely prickly		3 Momordica dioica
2 (1)	Bracts of the male flowers at the apex of the pedicel, ovate-cordate, dentate. Fruit 2-7 cm long		1 Momordica balsamina
+	Bracts of the male flowers about the middle or below the middle of the pedicel, reniform or orbicular-cordate, mucronate, entire. Fruit 7-25 cm long		2 Momordica charantia

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