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Adenopus abyssinicus

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Identification
Isotype of Adenopus abyssinicus Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lagenaria abyssinica (Hook.f.) C.Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lagenaria siceraria
  • Adenopus abyssinicus
  • Lagenaria abyssinica

Flora

Entry for LAGENARIA siceraria (Molina) Standl. [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
LAGENARIA siceraria (Molina) Standl. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1930).
LAGENARIA vulgaris Ser. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1825);
LAGENARIA leucantha (Lam.) Rusby [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1896) nom. illeg. [type as above]
Adenopus abyssinicus Chiov. var. somaliensis [family CUCURBITACEAE], Result. Sci. Miss. Stefanini-Paoli: 81 (1916);. type: S3, “Hacacca”, Paoli 519 (FT lecto.).
Information
Vigorous prostrate or scandent annual herb to 4.5 m. Leaf-blade broadly ovate or reniform, cordate, softly shortly pubescent or puberulous, 3–40 x 4.5–40 cm, unlobed or, when young, palmately 5–7-lobed, lobes rounded; petiole 2–30 cm long, obscurely 2-glandular at the apex. Monoecious; flowers sweet-scented. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 7–31 cm long. Hypanthium obconic-cylindrical, 11–16 mm long. Sepals triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2.5–11 mm long. Petals white with green veins, obovate, 2.5–4.7 cm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 2–10 cm long. Ovary ellipsoid to cylindrical, villous, 1–3.5 cm long. Hypanthium 1.5–2.5 mm long. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose to cylindrical, commonly bottle-shaped or swollen at ends, up to 100 x 10–20 cm, green, uniformly coloured or mottled, yellow-brown when dry. Seeds oblong in outline, 7–20 mm long, variable, smooth or with longitudinal facial ridges.
Range
N1; S3, also cultivated pantropical.
Altitude range
40–1850 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Godding 196; Scassellati & Mazzocchi 121.
Notes
Gardu (Som.-N).Young fruits edible, mature fruits used as containers.

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