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Cucumis melo

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Identification
Cucumis melo Naudin [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cucumis melo
Common name
  • osaka (JMD) (WEST CAMEROONS, MBONGE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • esaka (JMD) (WEST CAMEROONS, TANGA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • inabe (Gaisser) (TOGO, BASSARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • neri the seeds, but properly of Citrullus (JMD) (GHANA, DAGBANI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • batanya (JMD) gulli (JMD) gunaà, gurjií (ZOG) gurji (JMD) guŋi kwantal (JMD) gurli (JMD) gurli к̉wantal (ZOG) gwandar beri (MM) kuliri (JMD; ZOG) kwantal (JMD) shamman (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kanjinga (Gaisser) (TOGO, MOORE-NAWDAM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • cikiire (pl. chikilje) (JMD) denaare (pl. denaage) (JMD) dene bamđi = donkey’s melon (MM) nyanaare (pl. nyanaađe) (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yengani (Ll.W) (GHANA, GRUSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hal u mbot = melon of the toad (JB) yombebute, yomba mbot, yomba: gourd; bute, mböt: toad, loosely applied to small cucurbits (JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fagus (JMD) shamman (JMD) (NIGERIA, ARABIC-SHUWA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • khad (JB) nak nãngoy (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • esaka (JMD) (WEST CAMEROONS, LONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • isikiripum this and other C. spp. (BNO) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kaenja (Gaisser) (TOGO, TEM (Tshaudjo)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sarma (Ll.W) (GHANA, NANKANNI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • esaka (JMD) (WEST CAMEROONS, KUNDU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • melon., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kaniiga (FB) kanjinga (Gaisser) (TOGO, KABRE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • inabe (FB) (TOGO, KONKOMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • íne gabá jч́gσo (C-G) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kaenia (FB) (TOGO, TEM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • al bata (JMD) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kurubomboŋmesengo = tiny kurubombong (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • esaka (JMD) (WEST CAMEROONS, LUNDU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mime (pl. -à) (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ermana (JMD) (NIGER, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • wátὲrε, watr̀ε (KD) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kongo dĭé (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • inabe (Gaisser) (GHANA, KONKOMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • icegher probably this sp. (Vermeer) (NIGERIA, TIV), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • itekel (JMD) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CUCUMIS melo L. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CUCUMIS melo L. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1753).
Information
Trailing or sometimes scandent annual herbs to 1.5 m; stems hispid. Leaf-blade ovate or broadly ovate, cordate, ± sinuate-dentate, scabrid-setulose or scabrid-punctate, 1.5–6.5 x 1.5–8 cm, unlobed or usually palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular to obovate, obtuse or rounded; petiole hispid-setose, 1–9 cm long. Monoecious. Male flowers solitary or in small fascicles. Pedicels 2.5–7 mm long. Hypanthium 3–4 mm long, hispid or villous. Sepals linear, 3–7 mm long. Petals yellow, 3–7 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicels 4–10 mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, 4–10 mm long, densely finely puberulous and usually also with some longer forward-pointing hairs. Fruit ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 4–6 x 2–4 cm, smooth, green to white with darker green longitudinal stripes, yellow when ripe, shortly pubescent; flesh bitter or non-bitter. Seeds elliptic in outline, c. 4.2 mm long.
Range
C2; S2, 3 palaeotropics.
Altitude range
30–120 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 86/101; Moggi & Bavazzano 1156; Anonymous 3456.
Notes
Saar-saar (Som.); melon, musk-melon (Eng.). Fruits recorded as edible, and used as food. The above description is based on wild plants of Somalia, which are referable to subsp. agrestis (Naud.) Grebensc., distinguished by shortly puberulous ovaries. Plants of subsp. melo, with densely long-villous ovaries, are widely cultivated for their edible fruits and may be met with in cultivation in Somalia. They are usually also much larger in all parts, especially flowers, fruits and seeds, and the fruits vary greatly in size, shape, colour and surface ornamentation.

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