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Physedra longipes

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Name

Identification
Physedra longipes Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Ruthalicia longipes (Hook.f.) C.Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Physedra unrecorded
  • Ruthalicia longipes
  • Physedra longipes
  • Luffa unrecorded
Common name
  • asaman akyekyea akim (Chakravarty) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PHYSEDRA longipes 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
PHYSEDRA longipes Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Leaves 4–5 in. long and broad, palmately 5-lobed to near the base; lobes lanceolate or oblanceolate, long acuminate, quite entire, sinus narrow, two lateral spreading, falcate and deflexed, with oblique bases which approach or overlap beyond the petiole, dark brown when dry; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Tendrils very long and stout. Male fl., peduncles 2–4 in. long, slender, flexuous; bracts small, stout, fleshy, recurved or revolute; pedicels 1/3–1 in. spreading. Male buds only seen, 1/8 in. long. Calyx-tube turbinate, lobes short.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Sierra del Crystal, Mann!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel!

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