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Corallocarpus bainesii

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Name

Identification
Corallocarpus dinteri Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Lack, H.W., Corallocarpus bainesii (Hook.f.) A.Meeuse [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Corallocarpus sphaerocarpus
  • Rhynchocarpa bainesii
  • Corallocarpus bainesii
  • Corallocarpus dinteri

Flora

Entry for CORALLOCARPUS bainesii (Hook. f.) A. Meeuse [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
CORALLOCARPUS bainesii (Hook. f.) A. Meeuse [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Bothalia 8: 41 (1962); A. & R. Fernandes in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultram., sér. 2, 34: 127 (1962); Keraudren, Fl. Madag. Cucurbitac: 70 (1966). Type: Botswana, Norton Shaw Valley, Chapman & Baines (K, holo.!)
Rhynchocarpa bainesii Hook. f. [family ], in F.T.A. 2: 564 (1871)
Kedrostis bainesii (Hook. f.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 644 (1881)
Corallocarpus poissonii Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 651 (1881). Types: Comoro Is., Boivin & Madagascar, Vesco (both P, syn.!)
Corallocarpus sphaerocarpus Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Abh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 30: 151 (1888). Types: South West Africa, Schinz 303 & 305 (Z, syn.)
Corallocarpus bussei Gilg [family CUCURBITACEAE], in E.J. 34: 363 (1904). Types: Tanganyika, Lindi District, near Seliman-Mamba, Busse 2715 (B, holo. †, EA, iso.!)
Information
Climbing herb; stem glabrous, smooth. Leaf-blade broadly reniform-cordate in outline, obscurely toothed, shortly softly hairy or hispid-hairy, 36–54 mm. long, 52–70 mm. broad, palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes elliptic, rhombic or obovate, ± narrowed below; petiole shortly and sparsely hairy or glabrous, 18–26 mm. long. Male flowers 3–12 in 1–5 mm. long racemes apical on 15–50 mm. long peduncles; pedicels 1.5–2 mm. long. Female flowers often coaxillary with ♂, up to about 25 in sessile clusters or dense racemes; ovary ovoid, 3 mm. long, 1 mm. across. Fruits 1–25 in sessile clusters or short dense racemes, on 1–3 mm. long stalks, ovoid or ovoid-conical, rounded above, not beaked, red, 9–11 mm. long, 5–8 mm. across. Seeds pyriform, slightly rugose, margined, ± 4.5 × 3 × 2.5 mm. Fig. 24/9, p. 140.
Range
DISTR. T4, 8 widespread in southern Africa
Altitude range
350–780 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mpanda District Rukwa Plain, Sonta, 26 Oct. 1963, Richards 18274!TANGANYIKA Lindi District near Seliman-Mamba, 30 May 1903, Busse 2715!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Comoro Is

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