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Cucumis mascatensis

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Identification
Cucumis prophetarum L. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Cucumis prophetarum (Naudin) C.Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.H.J. Kirkbride, Cucumis mascatensis Gand. [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cucumis mascatensis
  • Cucumis prophetarum
  • Cucumis arabicus

Flora

Entry for CUCUMIS prophetaram subsp. prophetarum [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
CUCUMIS prophetaram subsp. prophetarum [family CUCURBITACEAE]
CUCUMIS prophetarum L. [family CUCURBITACEAE], sensu F.T.A. 2: 545 (1871), pro parte, excl. spec. cit. Welwitsch; F.W.T.A. 1: 182 (1927) & ed. 2, 1: 213 (1954); Hassib, Cucurbitac. in Egypt: 74, fig. 29 (1938); F.P.S. 1: 175, fig. 103 (1950); Chakrav., Monogr. Indian Cucurbitac: 109 (1959)
CUCUMIS pustulatus A. Terr. var. echinophorus [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 5: 108 (1894). Types: Eritrea, Anfile Bay, Terracciano 77 & 186 (RO, syn.!)
CUCUMIS mascatensis Gand. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 65: 28 (1918). Types: Arabia, Muscat, Aucher 4503 & Bornmüller 358 (both LY, syn., K, isosyn.!)
CUCUMIS ficifolius [family CUCURBITACEAE], [sensu F.W.T.A. 1: 182 (1927) & ed. 2, 1: 213 (1954), non A. Rich.]
Information
Cinereous-hairy trailing herb; stems densely covered with short rather fine subappressed forward-pointing scabrid hairs; leaves cinereous, shortly and densely scabrid-hairy, 10–48 mm. long, 10–55 mm. broad. Fruit on a 10–55 mm. long stalk, shortly ellipsoid to subglobose, 25–45 mm. long, 18–33 mm. across, with the aculei 0.5–5 mm. long, glabrous or sometimes densely and finely grey-hairy between the aculei, longitudinally striped bright and dark green, clear yellow when ripe.
Range
DISTR. K2 Senegal eastwards in the desert regions to Pakistan and India
Altitude range
500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Lake Rudolf, Ferguson’s Gulf, 17 May 1953, Padwa 164!

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