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Zehneria velutina

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Name

Identification
Zehneria scabra (L.f.) Sond. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Zehneria velutina Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by J. Burtt Davy, Bryonia scabra unrecorded [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Melothria velutina Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Melothria velutina (Schrad.) Cogn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by J. Burtt Davy, Pilogyne velutina Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Zehneria velutina Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Zehneria velutina Arn. [family CUCURBITACEAE ]
Related name
  • Zehneria velutina
  • Bryonia scabra
  • Melothria velutina
  • Pilogyne velutina
  • Melothria tomentosa
  • Zehneria scabra

Flora

Entry for ZEHNERIA velutina Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 482, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
ZEHNERIA velutina Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], !—E. & Z.! 1788.
Bryonia scabra var. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Drege, herb.
Information
stem and petioles pubescent; leaves cordate, sub-5-lobed, unequally serrate-dentate, mucronate, very scabrous above, densely pubescent beneath; peduncles of the female flowers elongated, umbellate, or very short and 1-flowered; fruit glabrous. Leaves about as long as broad, 1–2-uncial, distinctly 5-lobed, lobes short. Flowers pubescent. Fruit as in Z. scabra, from which it is only distinguished by the serrated densely pubescent leaves. Bryonia lævis, Thunb.! fl. cap. 35, now wanting in his herbarium is perhaps a glabrous variety.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods on the Katriver-mountains, Caffraria, E. & Z.; Zuureberge, April, Drege. (Herb. D., Sd.)

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