Compilation
Peponia usambarensis

Climber or trailer to 8 m.; stems hispid-hairy or densely shortly or shaggy-hairy with colourless hairs. Leaf-blade ovate-, broadly reniform-, suborbicular-, or pentagonal-cordate in outline, sparsely to densely short- to long-hairy above and especially on the nerves beneath, becoming hispid or scabrid especially above, sinuate-toothed, often sharply so, 51–180 mm. long, 70–260 mm. broad, palmately 5-lobed; lobes triangular, broadest below, or ovate or ovate-elliptic, narrowed below and then often themselves 3-lobulate, acute to obtuse and apiculate; petiole hispid-hairy, 18–130 mm. long. Probracts sessile, oblanceolate-spathulate, cucullate, up to 12–18 mm. long and 8 mm. broad. Male flowers solitary or 4–13 in an 80–360 mm. long bracteate raceme, sometimes a solitary flower and a raceme coaxillary; peduncle of raceme 30–210 mm. long; pedicels of racemose flowers 3–25 mm. long, of solitary flowers 39–250 mm. long; bracts broadly obovate to lanceolate, cucullate, inrolled at the margins, 8–31 mm. long, 5–22 mm. broad, pale greenish-yellow; flowers 40–80 mm. in diameter, sweet-scented, night-flowering; receptacle-tube sparsely hairy, cylindrical or obconic-cylindrical, often slightly bulbous at the base, 15–32 mm. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, 6–13 mm. long; petals white to pale yellow, obovate-apiculate, 19–48 mm. long, 14–40 mm. broad. Female flowers on 10–55 mm. long stalks; ovary densely white-hairy or woolly, pale green, ellipsoid, 15–26 mm. long, 10–14 mm. across; receptacle-tube obconic-cylindrical, 11–22 mm. long; lobes linear-lanceolate, 6–13 mm. long; petals 26–38 mm. long, 20–22 mm. broad. Fruit on an 18–68 mm. long stalk, elongated-ellipsoid to ovoid or almost spherical, 42–141 mm. long, 29–50 mm. across, bright red and sparsely setose or ± lanate. Seeds elliptic in outline, smooth, lenticular, blackish, 6–10 × 3–5 × 1–1.5 mm. Fig. 11/1–7.