Entry for ADENOPUS eglandulosus Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 521, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
ADENOPUS eglandulosusHook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Stem and petioles slightly pubescent. Leaves 4–5 in. long, digitately 5–7-lobed to near the base, lobes narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sinuate-lobed, with scattered hairs on the surface above and on the veins beneath. Male fl.: Peduncle stout, 2–3 in., pilose; pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx-tube 1/3 in. long, cylindric, slightly dilated in the middle; limb cup-shaped, with 5 remote, very slender, subulate lobes. Corolla 2–3 in. in diameter. Anther-head globose; cells contortuplicate.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea !
Notes
I have a single poor specimen of this most distinct plant; it was received from Mr. Morson, the eminent pharmacist, by the late R. Brown, and purchased at a sale of some of the plants of the latter gentleman.The leaves in drying turn very dark brown, as with A. longiflorus. I find no trace of glands on the petiole or leaf.
