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Melothria maderaspatana

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Identification
Bryonia cordifolia L. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Mukia scabrella (L.f.) Arn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by James Edgar Dandy, Mukia maderaspatana (L.) Roem. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by C. Jeffrey,
Related name
  • Mukia scabrella
  • Mukia maderaspatana
  • Melothria maderaspatana
  • Mukia javanica
  • Bryonia micrantha
  • Bryonia cordifolia
Common name
  • erinkanyaba (N&E) okí-ọ̀ka, ọ̀ka: a children’s disease of the head for which the plant is held to be a cure or preventative (JMD) ore-oka (Macgregor) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • egìrí (LB) (NIGERIA, BEROM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hal u mbot = melon of the toad (JMD; K&A) ngon soré na = evening is far (JB; DF) yombebute = gourd of the toad (JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • an-sisσ (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pomey (K&A) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gautan kaji (RES) gáútan zóómóó = hare’s tomato (JMD; LB) maàlàmií, máálami, maálamií-ná-maátaá, maalamìn máátáá indicates superstitious use of the plant as a love-charm (auctt.) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ngon jogena = evening is near (DF) (THE GAMBIA, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yεsira (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANINKA (Koranko)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pôm (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • basa furãda (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MUKIA maderaspatana (L.) M. J. Roem. [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
MUKIA maderaspatana (L.) M. J. Roem. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Syn. Monogr. 2: 47 (1846); E. & A. Fernandes in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultram., sér. 2, 34: 124 (1962). Type: illustration of Cucumis maderaspatensis fructu minimo in Pluk., Phytogr. 3, t. 170/2 (1692) (lecto.! , fide Meeuse in Bothalia 8: 14 (1962))
Cucumis maderaspatanus L. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1012 (1753)
Bryonia cordifolia L. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1012 (1753). Type: Ceylon, Hermann (BM, typo.!)
Bryonia scabrella L. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Linn. f., Suppl.: 424 (1781). Type: eastern India, (LINN, holo.!)
Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 276 (1841); Fl. Cap. 2: 489 (1862); F.T.A. 2: 561 (1871)
Coccinia cordifolia (L.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 529 (1881), quoad typum tantum, excl. spec. cit.
Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 623 (1881); Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. 2: 403 (1895); A. Zimm., Cucurbitac. 2: 5, 10, 12, 22, 32, 46, 83, 92, 111, figs. 7/3, 30/14–15, 69/8–10, 81/10 (1922); Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transv. 1: 225 (1926); F.W.T.A. 1: 179 (1927) & ed. 2, 1: 209 (1954); F.P.N.A. 2: 390 (1947); F.P.S. 1: 178 (1950); Chakrav., Monogr. Indian Cucurbitac.: 141 (1959); F.P.U.: 97, fig. 44 (1962); A. Meeuse in Bothalia 8: 14 (1962)
Information
Climber or trailer to 2.5 m. from perennial woody rootstock; stems roughly bristly-hairy. Leaf-blade sagittate, hastate, triangular, ovate or broadly ovate in outline, often ± cordate, sinuate-toothed and sometimes irregularly dentate-lobulate, scabrid-hairy, 12–113 mm. long, 14–110 mm. broad, unlobed or ± 3(–5)-lobed; middle lobe triangular, broadest below, or sometimes slightly narrowed towards the base, and much the largest; lateral lobes ovate-triangular; petiole rough-hairy, 3–82 mm. long. Male flowers on 1–3 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 1–2 mm. long, dark-hairy; lobes triangular-subulate, 0.5–1 mm. long; petals yellow, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1–1.3 mm. broad. Female flowers 5–10 in separate clusters on 1 mm. long pedicels; ovary green, globose, shortly beaked, bristly with dark forward-pointing hairs, 1.5–3 mm. long, 1.2–2.5 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1 mm. long; lobes triangular, 0.5–0.8 mm. long; petals ± 1 mm. long and broad. Fruits subsessile in axillary clusters of 1–7, bright scarlet and glabrous, smooth, subglobose, 6–11 mm. in diameter. Seeds ovate in outline, bordered, scrobiculate, 4–5.5 × 2–3 × 1.2–1.7 mm. Fig. 19, p. 116.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K7; T1, 3, 4, 6–8; Z tropical Africa and South Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Is., also tropical Asia, Malesia and Australasia
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Rabai, Aug. 1937, V. G. L. van Someren 280!TANGANYIKA Tanga District about 13 km. SW. of Muheza, Bombwera, 19 Nov. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7092!TANGANYIKA Mpanda District S. end of Kungwe-Mahali peninsula, Kalya, 22 Aug. 1959, R. M. Harley 9392!TANGANYIKA Songea District by R. Nakawali SW. of Kitai, 8 Mar. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9056!UGANDA Bunyoro District Pakanyi, Mar. 1943, Purseglove 1314!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Nov. 1931, Chandler 25!UGANDA Busoga District near Iganga, Naigombwa, July 1953, Lind 176!ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Mwera swamp, 4 Oct. 1930, Vaughan 1606! & 27 km. on Zanzibar–Chwaka road, 28 Dec. 1961, Faulkner 2962!

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