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CITRULLUS colocynthis (L.) Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CITRULLUS colocynthis (L.) Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1838).
Information
Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.
Range
N1, 3; C1 semidesert areas of northern Africa, tropical Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4759; Bally 10208; Simmons B 74.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
N Ethiopia
Socotra
Notes
Unun (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CITRULLUS colocynthis (L.) Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1838).
Information
Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.
Range
N1, 3; C1 semidesert areas of northern Africa, tropical Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4759; Bally 10208; Simmons B 74.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
N Ethiopia
Socotra
Notes
Unun (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CITRULLUS colocynthis (L.) Schrad. [family CUCURBITACEAE], (1838).
Information
Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.
Range
N1, 3; C1 semidesert areas of northern Africa, tropical Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4759; Bally 10208; Simmons B 74.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
N Ethiopia
Socotra
Notes
Unun (Som.).
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