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Cucumis pustulatus

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Name

Identification
Cucumis pustulatus Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kirkbride,J.J.H.,
Related name
  • Cucumis meeusei
  • Cucumis abyssinicus
  • Cucumis ficifolius
  • Cucumis figarei
  • Cucumis amarus
  • Cucumis pustulatus
  • Cucumis prophetarum
  • Cucumis arabicus
Common name
  • golon zaki (JMD) noónòn kàreé = hyena’s milk (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (East)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • tsúwaàwún-zaákiì (ZOG; JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bakin duniya = all the world: (JMD) goólón zaakii (ZOG) gúnàr kuúraá = hyena’s watermelon (JMD; ZOG) kaashin gwankii = dung of the roan antelope (JMD; ZOG) kuк̉aimi maк̉aimi = spiny one; from к̉aimi: a spur (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • beref u buki = sweet melon of the wolf (JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CUCUMIS pustulatus Hook. f. [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
CUCUMIS pustulatus Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1871).
CUCUMIS figarei [family CUCURBITACEAE], sensu auctt. non Del. ex Naud. (1859).
Information
Trailing or scandent perennial herb to 2 m. Leaf-blade ovate to broadly ovate, subcordate, sinuate-dentate, harshly hispid or scabrid, 3–10 x 2.5–8 cm, palmately (3–)5-lobed, lobes ovate-triangular to ovate-oblong, rounded, the central largest; petiole 1.3–4.5 cm long. Monoecious. Male flowers solitary or in small clusters. Pedicels 4–15(–22) mm long. Hypanthium (3–)5 mm long. Sepals linear, 2–3 mm long. Petals yellow, 5–8 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicels 3.8–6.5 cm long. Ovary ellipsoid, 6–13 mm long, tuberculate-scabrid. Perianth as in male flowers. Fruit obtusely ellipsoid to cylindrical, 5–6.5(–10) x 3–5 cm, tuberculate, green, ripening yellow, the tubercles obscure to prominent, 1–7 mm long. Pedicel 3–7 cm long, thickened towards the apex. Seeds elliptic in outline, 6–6.5 mm long.
Range
N2, 3; S1 Eritrea, Ethiopia, west to Nigeria, south to S Tanzania, north to Arabia.
Altitude range
c. 300–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Barbier 1064; Bavazzano & Lavranos s.n.; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7647.
Notes
The records from N2 and N3 are preliminary. They are based on respectively Bavazzano & Lavranos s.n. and Barbier 1064, both incomplete specimens.

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