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Momordica multiflora

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Name

Identification
Momordica cordata Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Momordica multiflora Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schäfer Hanno, 2007
Related name
  • Momordica gabonii
  • Bryonia unrecorded
  • Momordica laurentii
  • Momordica cordata
  • Momordica multiflora

Flora

Entry for MOMORDICA multiflora Hook. f. [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
MOMORDICA multiflora Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Monœcious: very pubescent.Stem slender. Leaves membranous, broadly ovate-cordate, 2 1/2–6 in. long, acuminate, entire, faintly sinuate-toothed, the teeth apiculate, basal sinus rather deep. Tendrils simple or 2-fid. Male fl.: Peduncles solitary or geminate, slender, branched, subcymosely many-flowered; inflorescence densely pubescent and hairy; bracts 0 or small at the forks; buds very small with recurved calyx-lobes, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube small, lobes short, ovate, acute. Corolla 3/4 in. in diameter, yellow. Anther-cells curved, opening inwards, connective rather narrow, 2-fid at the apex. Immature fruit shortly thickly peduncled, subcylindric, smooth, thick, crowned with the persistent floral envelopes.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea in damp woods, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel!Upper Guinea Gaboon river, Mann!
Notes
A very peculiar species, from the smallness of the buds, and nearly straight, apparently introrse anther-cells.

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