Blastania fimbristipulaKotschy & Peyr. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ctenolepis cerasiformis(Stocks) Hook.f. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Zehneria cerasiformis
Ctenolepis cerasiformis
Bryonia fimbristipula
Blastania fimbristipula
Bryonia fimbristipulata
Bryonia garcini
Cucumis angulatus
Bryonia fimbristyla
Cyrtonema unrecorded
Bryonia pectinata
Common name
bàrkoònon-hàwaínìyàa = chili of the chameleon (auctt.) ďiyar hàwaínìyàá = offspring, or fruit of the chameleon (JMD) námíjìn gàraàfúnií = male garafuni (Momordica balsamina) (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
tiga sina (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
madar o yar (JB) ndunngal o rif (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
Flora
Entry for CTENOLEPIS cerasiformis (Stocks) Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CTENOLEPIS cerasiformis(Stocks) Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1871);
Blastania cerasiformis(Stocks) A. Meeuse [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1962). Fig. 124. [type as above]
Information
Slender scandent herb. Leaf-blade broadly ovate in outline, cordate, asperulous or scabrid, 2.5–9 x 2.5–13 cm, deeply palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes elliptic to broadly elliptic, sinuate-serrate, sometimes lobulate, the central largest; petiole 0.5–5.5 cm long, strigose or scabrid. Stipule-like bract almost circular, 6–20 mm in diam., finely ciliate. Male flowers 3–20 in pedunculate racemes. Peduncles 0.5–3.3 cm long. Pedicels slender, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Hypanthium obconic, c. 2 mm long. Perianth as in male flowers. Fruit subglobose, slightly oblate, 1–1.5 cm in diam., smooth, red, usually 2-seeded. Pedicel 2.5–7 mm long. Seeds 7.5–11 mm long, not or scarcely bordered.
Range
S3 Eritrea, Ethiopia, E to Mauritania, S to South Africa (Transvaal)
