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Staphylosyce barteri

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Name

Identification
Physedra barteri Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Coccinia barteri (Hook.f.) Keay [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by R.W.J. Keay, Staphylosyce barteri Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Staphylosyce barteri
  • Physedra barteri
  • Coccinia barteri

Flora

Entry for STAPHYLOSYCE Barteri 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
STAPHYLOSYCE Barteri Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], l.c.
Information
Climbing, 15–20 ft.Stem terete. Leaves variable, short-petioled, dark green or brown when dry, upper entire, coarsely sinuate-toothed, 4 in. long, lower broader, palmately 3–5-lobed, deeply cordate at the base, lobes oblong, upper surface of the old leaves densely covered with white papillæ. Spikes many-flowered, stout, 1 in. long, strict, puberulous, with short fleshy? persistent, glandular bracteoles at the base of the very short racemed pedicels. Flowers about 1/2 in. diameter. Fruit 3–4 in. diameter, fleshy. Seeds 1/5 in. long.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Fernando Po and Nupe on the Niger, Barter!

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