Peponia vogeliiHook.f. [family UNK.BACILLARIOPHYCEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Peponium vogelii(Hook.f.) Engl. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Peponia vogelii
Peponium vogelii
Flora
Entry for PEPONIA Vogelii 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
PEPONIA VogeliiHook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Stem slender, laxly villous with spreading flaccid articulate hairs, which clothe more or less the petioles both surfaces of the leaves and inflorescence. Leaves 1 1/2–4 in. broad, membranous, upper surface here and there papillose with minute white dots, orbicular-reniform in outline, deeply cordate with a broad sinus at the base, subpalmately 5-lobed to about the middle; lobes broadly oblong, rather broadest above the base, irregularly shallowly crenate-toothed; petioles 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Male peduncles axillary, solitary, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1-flowered. Calyx-tube 1 in. long, contracted above the sphærical base, then subcylindric; lobes subulate, half as long as the tube. Petals pale sulphur-coloured (Barter), white (Vogel), subacute, 3-nerved, pubescent.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel!Lagos Upper Guinea Barter!
Notes
Barter's specimen is smaller and more delicate than Vogel's; but I see no other difference except in the colour of the flower. The species is very closely allied to the South African P. McKennii, Naud., a much larger plant, with sharply toothed leaves, and a shorter funnel-shaped calyx-tube.
