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Trochomeria macrocarpa

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Identification
Trochomeria macrocarpa (Sond.) Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trochomeria macrocarpa
Common name
  • basgo (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akwalu (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • alalata (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for TROCHOMERIA macrocarpa 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
TROCHOMERIA macrocarpa Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Information
Pubescent-pilose with rather soft hairs; stem sparingly pilose. Leaves very variable, without white papillæ when dry, pubescent on both surfaces; petioles short. Peduncles 1–3 in. long, very slender, 1–3-flowered; pedicels capillary. Flowers yellow. Calyx-tube 1/2 in. long, 1/8 in. diameter. Corolla-lobes subulate, as long as the calyx-tube. Anthers with papillose tips. Fruit fleshy, oblong, 1 1/2–2 in. long, beaked. Seeds ovoid, compressed, nearly 1/3 in. long, testa very thick.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, dry woods and bushy places, Dr. Welwitsch! Forms 3 and 4.Mozamb. Dist. Open country N. of Chiradzura, Lat. 14°–19° S. Dr. Kirk! Form 2.
Notes
Form 1. Leaves 1-1 3/4 in. long, digitately 5-7-lobed to near the base, lobes linear or linear-oblong, sparingly obtusely lobed, peduncles 1-flowered. Zehneria macrocarpa, Sond. in Fl. Cap. ii. 488. The South African form. Form 2. Leaves reduced to 1 or few very narrow lobes, or altogether wanting; peduncles 2-3-flowered; corolla-lobes narrower. ? ? Form 3. Leaves as in form 1, but lobes lanceolate, sometimes with orbicular pectinate stipular bracts at the base. ? Form 4. Leaves broadly reniform-cordate, acuminate, obscurely lobed or angled, irregularly and obtusely toothed, peduncles solitary or in pairs, 1-flowered.

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