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Melothria deltoidea

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Name

Identification
Zehneria capillacea (Schumach.) C.Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Melothria triangularis Benth. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Melothria capillacea (Schumach.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson & Dalziel, Melothria triangularis unrecorded [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Melothria deltoidea (Schumach.) Benth. [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Melothria capillacea
  • Zehneria capillacea
  • Indomelothria blumei
  • Melothria triangularis
  • Melothria deltoidea
  • Neoachmandra leucocarpa
  • Rhynchocarpa deltoidea

Flora

Entry for MELOTHRIA deltoidea Benth. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 521, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
MELOTHRIA deltoidea Benth. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Flora Nigrit. 368.
Bryonia deltoidea Schum. and Thonn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Pl. Guin. 429?
Information
Very similar to M. triangularis, but much stouter; leaves not scabrid, their outer angles more rounded; peduncles shorter and ovary fusiform. Berry ovoid, narrowed at both ends.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Aboh, Vogel!
Notes
A doubtful plant, of which none of my specimens are very good; the ovary is fusiform, but the fruit globose, as in M. triangularis .

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