Compilation
Coccinia schinzii
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Name
Identification
Coccinia schinzii Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Coccinia sessilifolia (Sond.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Holstein N., 2008
Related name
- Coccinia schinzii
- Coccinia sessilifolia
Flora
Entry for Coccinia sessilifolia Sond. Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 414, (1978) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
Cephalandra sessilifolia Sond. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 2: 493 (1862). Syntypes as above.
Coccinia schinzii Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 419 (1895).—Burtt Davy, loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.
Coccinia sessilifolia Sond. Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 3: 534 (1881).—Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 231 (1926).—Hutch., Botanist in S. Afr.: 298, 299, 666 (1946).—Story in Mem. Bot. Survey S. Afr. 30: 52, t. 62 (1958).—Meeuse in Bothalia 8: 98 (1962).—Launert & Roessler in Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 94: 9 (1968). Syntypes from S. Africa.
Information
Stems annual, arising from tuberous subterranean rootstock, prostrate or scandent, glabrous. Leaf-lamina 3–9 × 4–13 cm., sessile, ± amplexicaul, broadly ovate in outline, cordate, ± glaucous, glabrous, smooth or sparsely to densely± strongly scabrid-punctate, deeply palmately 3–5-lobed, the lobes elliptic to lanceolate, entire to coarsely and usually sharply sinuate-dentate or lobulate, sometimes deeply and narrowly so, acute, apiculate. Tendrils simple. Probracts 1·5–3·5 mm. long, small, narrow. male flowers solitary or in sessile or up to 3·5 cm. pedunculate clusters or racemes, when pedunculate usually bracteate and with a co-axillary solitary flower; pedicels of solitary and clustered flowers 0·8–7·5 cm. long, of racemose flowers 1–2 cm. long; bracts small, 1·5–3 mm. long, lanceolate or spathulate. Receptacle-tube 4–5·5 mm. long, campanulate, glabrous; lobes 3·5–5 mm. long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla pale yellow, sometimes with pinkish tinge, green-veined, the lobes 2–3 × 1–1·5 cm., united to above the middle. female flowers solitary; pedicels 0·7–1·5 cm. long, stout; ovary c. 15–18 × 3·5 mm., cylindrical or ellipsoid-rostrate, glabrous; receptacle-tube 3 mm. long, narrowly campanulate, lobes 3–4·5 mm. long, lanceolate; corolla similar to that of male flowers. Fruit 5·5–10·5 × 2–2·5 cm., ellipsoid-fusiform or ellipsoid-cylindrical, often shortly rostrate, bright red; fruit-stalk 0·7–1·5 cm. long, stout, expanded upwards. Seeds 6·5–7 × 3–3·5 × 1·4 mm., asymmetrically ovate in outline, compressed; testa minutely rugulose.
Habitat
Wooded grassland.
Distribution
Botswana SE Mochudi, 1914, Harbor in Rogers 6465 (K).Botswana SW 32 km. W. of Werda, fl. 26.ii.1960, Wild 5167 (K; SRGH).Botswana N Aha Hills, fl. 13.iii.1965, Wild & Drummond 6953 (COI; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
SW. Africa
S. Africa