Kedrostis minutifloraCogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Kedrostis foetidissima(Jacq.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Rhynchocarpa foetida
Cyrtonema foetens
Bryonia foetidissima
Kedrostis foetidissima
Bryonia obtusiloba
Cyrtonema convolvulaceum
Rhynchocarpa unrecorded
Mukia unrecorded
Cyrtonema convolvulacea
Cyrtonema divergens
Kedrostis minutiflora
Flora
Entry for KEDROSTIS foetidissima (Jacq.) Cogn. [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]
Scandent or trailing herb to 3 m, glandular-pubescent, foetid when crushed. Leaf-blade ovate-oblong, ovate or broadly ovate, cordate to subhastate, ± sinuate-dentate, finely hispid, 1.6–9 x 1.3–10 cm, unlobed to moderately deeply palmately 3–5-lobed; petiole 0.5–5 cm long, pubescent. Tendrils simple. Monoecious. Male flowers 3–15 in small fascicles or racemes. Peduncles and pedicels slender; pedicels 2–14 mm long. Hypanthium campanulate, 2–2.5 mm long. Sepals small, tooth-like. Petals pale yellow, 2.5–4 mm long. Female flowers solitary, shortly pedicellate. Ovary ellipsoid, rostrate, glandular-pubescent. Fruit green with darker longitudinal lines, red when ripe, 0.7–2 x 0.6–1 cm. Pedicel 1–6 mm long. Seeds asymmetrically ovate in outline, brownish, smooth, bordered, compressed at the apex, 4–6 mm long.
