Entry for TELFAIRIA occidentalis 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
TELFAIRIA occidentalisHook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Very similar indeed to T. pedata, but the leaflets are all triple-nerved from near the base, the flowers apparently smaller and the calyx-lobes less deeply serrate. Female fl. not seen. Fruit 2 ft. long, acutely 10-ribbed, apex obtusely produced.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Barter! Common in littoral hedges of Euphorbia aphylla, Dr. Welwitsch!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann!Abbeokuta Upper Guinea Irving!
Notes
Mann states that it is cultivated for the seeds, which the negroes boil and eat.
