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Momordica multicrenulata

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Filed as Momordica gabonii Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Filed as Momordica multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Filed as Momordica multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Filed as Momordica multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Holotype of Momordica multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
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Identification
Momordica multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Momordica parvifolia Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Keraudren M., 1967
Related name
  • Momordica multicrenulata
  • Momordica parvifolia

Flora

Entry for MOMORDICA multiflora Hook. f. [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
MOMORDICA multiflora Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 540 (1871); Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. 2: 394 (1898); F.W.T.A. 1: 181 (1927) & ed. 2, 1: 212 (1954); F.P.S. 1: 181 (1950); R. & A. Fernandes in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultram., sér. 2, 34: 79 (1962). Types: Angola, Cuanza Norte, Golungo Alto, Moio R., Welwitsch 843 (BM, syn., K, isosyn.!) & Gabon, Mann 1019 (K, syn.!) & Fernando Po, Vogel 173 (K, syn.!)
MOMORDICA gaboni Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 450 (1881); R. & A. Fernandes in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultram., sér. 2, 34: 79 (1962). Type: Gabon, Duparquet (P, holo.!)
MOMORDICA laurentii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. 5, 3: 142, t. 13/1 (1909). Type: Congo Republic, Equateur, Bombimba–R. Ikelemba, Bruneel in Laurent 1270 (BR, holo.!)
MOMORDICA multicrenulata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 5: 110 (1916); R. & A. Fernandes in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultram., sér. 2, 34: 80 (1962). Type: Congo Republic, Kasai, Bena Dibele, Claessens 923 (BR, holo.!)
MOMORDICA parvifolia Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 5: 110 (1916). Type: Congo Republic, Equateur, Dundusana, De Giorgi 1090 (BR, holo.!)
Coccinia macrocarpa [family CUCURBITACEAE], [sensu Cogn. in B.J.B.B. 5: 113 (1916), pro parte, quoad pl. foem. Luja 125!, excl. pl. masc.]
Momordica affinis De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 1: 561 (1922). Type: Congo Republic, Leopoldville, Bequaert 7649 (BR, holo.!)
Momordica gaboni Harms var. lobata [family CUCURBITACEAE], in E.P. IV. 275(2): 45 (1924). Types: Cameroun Republic, Zenker 616 & 4653 (both B, syn. †, K, isosyn.!)
Information
Medium-sized climber. Stems herbaceous, green, obscurely flecked with darker green. Leaf-blade broadly ovate-cordate in outline, subglabrous except on nerves beneath, usually ± punctate, acute and apiculate, almost entire to distinctly sinuate-toothed, 65–122 mm. long, 50–110 mm. broad, sometimes palmately 3-lobed; lobes triangular; petioles pubescent, 20–60 mm. long, the base persistent and somewhat thickened after leaf-fall. Tendrils simple. Dioecious. Male flowers in usually much-branched many-flowered pseudopanicles or less often racemes, 20–120 mm. long, pubescent especially on the pedicels, ebracteate or bearing a few stalked linear to broadly lanceolate leaf-like bracts at the forks; primary peduncles 4–80 mm. long; pedicels 2.5–7 mm. long; receptacle-tube short, broad, ribbed, 2–3 mm. long; lobes triangular or triangular-acuminate, black, 1–10 mm. long; petals white with black nerves below, oblong, rounded, 7–11 mm. long, 2.5–6 mm. wide, 2 with incurved scales inside at the base; stamens 2, alternate with the scales, the triple stamen sometimes replaced by a pair, then stamens 3; thecae slightly curved, almost horizontal. Female flowers unknown. Fruit on a stout ± 20 mm. long stalk, green (? unripe), cylindrical, shortly beaked, longitudinally ribbed, ± 110 mm. long and 35 mm. across. Seeds oblong in outline, compressed, ± 15 × 8 × 4 mm.; testa smooth, sculptured; margins grooved.
Range
DISTR. U4 Ghana eastwards and southwards to the Cameroun, Sudan and Congo Republics and Angola; Fernando Po
Altitude range
1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo, July 1914, Dummer 964!

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