About Cucurbitella asperata (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp.
Cucurbitella asperata (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp. is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Cucurbitella. This species is a climbing tuberous geophyte. It is native to southern tropical South America, where its distribution extends from Bolivia to west-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Cucurbitella asperata was first described under the name Cucurbita asperata in 1833. In 1846, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers reclassified it into the genus Cucurbitella, a genus Walpers had established and named the year before, in 1845.
