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Physedra bequaertii

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Type of Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Type of Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Type of Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Type of Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Type of Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Bambekea racemosa Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Keraudren-Aymonin M., 1971
Related name
  • Bambekea racemosa
  • Physedra bequaertii

Flora

Entry for BAMBEKEA bequaertii (De Wild.) C. Jeffrey [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
BAMBEKEA bequaertii (De Wild.) C. Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE], in K.B. 15: 346 (1962). Types: Congo Republic, Kivu, Rutshuru, Bequaert 4791 & 6315 (both BR, syn.!)
Physedra bequaertii De Wild. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Pl. Bequaert. 1: 569 (1922); F.P.N.A. 2: 399 (1947), pro parte, excl. spec. cit. Bequaert 3646 & Lebrun 4825
Information
Climber to 3 m.; stems herbaceous, glabrous. Leaf-blade broadly ovate-cordate in outline, glabrous or shortly and obscurely pubescent or more often minutely punctate, acuminate and apiculate, entire or shallowly sinuate with distinct apiculate teeth, 77–143 mm. long, 86–170 mm. broad, unlobed or palmately 3(–5)-lobed to about the middle or less; lobes triangular, triangular-ovate or elliptic, broadest at or somewhat narrowed towards the base. Male flowers 5–10, racemose on a 16–25 mm. long peduncle with 2–8 mm. long pedicels, with a coaxillary flower on a ± 15 mm. long pedicel; receptacle-tube broad, shallow, 2 mm. long; lobes strap-shaped, 4 mm. long; petals ± 6 mm. long and 4.5 mm. broad, free, yellowish or whitish. Female flowers 2–5, racemose on a 9–10 mm. long peduncle with 1.5–9 mm. long pedicels; bracts minute; ovary cylindrical, ± 9 mm. long and 6 mm. across, glabrous, truncate above; receptacle-tube very broadly and shallowly cylindrical, 1.5 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, acute, ± 7 mm. long; petals obovate-lingulate, ± 12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, subacute. Fruits and seeds unknown.
Range
DISTR. U4
Altitude range
850–1220 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Sezibwa Falls, Dec. 1915, Dummer 2653!
Distribution (external)
; Congo Republic
Notes
This species may eventually prove to be no more than a variant of B. racemosa Cogn. (known from Nigeria, the Cameroun and Congo Republics) from which it differs in its longer receptacle-lobes, shorter fewer-flowered ♂ racemes, and rather longer pedicels; these distinctions seem clear-cut on the specimens so far examined, but further Congo material may show them to break down.

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