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Peponium vogelii

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Identification
Peponia bracteata Cogn. [family UNK.BACILLARIOPHYCEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Peponium vogelii (Hook.f.) Engl. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Keraudren-Aymonin M., 1970
Related name
  • Peponium bojerii
  • Peponium usambasense
  • Peponia bracteata
  • Peponia urticoides
  • Peponium holstii
  • Peponia laurentii
  • Peponia usambarensis
  • Peponium vogelii
  • Peponium cucullatum
  • Cucumis unrecorded
  • Peponia kilimandscherica
  • Peponium kilimandscharicum
  • Peponium usambarense
  • Cucurbita cuculata
  • Peponia grandiflora
  • Peponia lagenarioides
  • Peponium usambarensis
  • Peponia vogelii
  • Peponia unrecorded
  • Peponia dissectum
Common name
  • antomona (Chakravarty) GBE-VHE kaktesui (Chakravarty) (GHANA, AKAN-FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PEPONIUM vogelii (Hook. f.) Engl. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PEPONIUM vogelii (Hook. f.) Engl. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1897). Fig. 126.
Information
Climbing or trailing herb to 12 m; stems ± crisped-pubescent. Leaf-blade broadly ovate, cordate, conspicuously sinuate-dentate, hispid becoming scabrid above, pubescent on veins beneath, (5–)11–16(–18) x (7–)12–19(–26) cm, palmately 5-lobed, lobes ovate-triangular or triangular; petiole 2–13 cm long, pubescent. Flowers sweet-scented, opening at night. Male flowers mostly racemose, racemes 8–36 cm long. Peduncle 3–21 cm long. Bracts obovate, pale green, cucullate, 8–35 mm long. Pedicels 3–25 mm long. Hypanthium cylindrical, yellowish-green, (15–)19–26(–32) mm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, (6–)8–11(–13) mm long. Petals white to pale yellow, 19–48 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 1–5.5 cm long. Ovary ellipsoid, densely villous, 15–26 mm long. Hypanthium obconic-cylindrical, 11–16(–22) mm long. Sepals and petals like those of male flowers. Fruit ellipsoid, (4–)6–11(–14) x 3–4.5(–5) cm, glabrescent. Pedicel 2–7 cm long. Seeds (6–)8.5–10 x (3–)4.5–5 x 1–1.5 mm.
Range
S3 tropical Africa west to Ghana and south to Malawi.
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25037, 25038, 25319/A.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
The Somali material has more deeply lobed leaves than usual in the species.

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