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MELOTHRIA tridactyla Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MELOTHRIA tridactyla Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
MELOTHRIA Thwaitesii Schweinf. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Reliq. Kotschy. 44, t. 29, excl. syn. and description of fruit.
Information
Glaucous.Stems and branches smooth or scabrid, ultimate capillary. Leaves 1 1/2–4 in. broad, green, triangular in outline, 3-lobed; lobes narrow or broad, the lateral placed at right angles with the middle one which is the longest, all obtuse or acute, apiculate, almost quite entire, scabrid above, glabrous or scabrid on the nerves beneath; petioles short or long, sometimes hispid. Male fl.: Peduncles capillary. Calyx shortly campanulate. Corolla 1/8 in. diameter, yellow. Filaments very short; anthers oblong, all 2-celled, cells parallel, ciliate; connective produced. Female fl.: Peduncles 3/4–2 in. Ovary very slender, long-beaked. Style slender. Fruit fusiform, 3/4–1 in. long, beaked at both ends. Seeds lenticular, 1/10 in. long, pale brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea shady places, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Congo Lower Guinea Burton!Mozamb. Dist. Shupanga, Dr. Kirk!
Notes
Capillary, leafless, axillary branches often bear both male and female flowers, and resemble peduncles. The young leaves are triangular, as in M. triangularis, but not toothed as in that plant. Also found in Johanna Island. Schweinfurth refers this to M. deltoidea, Thw., of Ceylon (not Benth.), from which it differs widely in the ripe fruit.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MELOTHRIA tridactyla Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
MELOTHRIA Thwaitesii Schweinf. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Reliq. Kotschy. 44, t. 29, excl. syn. and description of fruit.
Information
Glaucous.Stems and branches smooth or scabrid, ultimate capillary. Leaves 1 1/2–4 in. broad, green, triangular in outline, 3-lobed; lobes narrow or broad, the lateral placed at right angles with the middle one which is the longest, all obtuse or acute, apiculate, almost quite entire, scabrid above, glabrous or scabrid on the nerves beneath; petioles short or long, sometimes hispid. Male fl.: Peduncles capillary. Calyx shortly campanulate. Corolla 1/8 in. diameter, yellow. Filaments very short; anthers oblong, all 2-celled, cells parallel, ciliate; connective produced. Female fl.: Peduncles 3/4–2 in. Ovary very slender, long-beaked. Style slender. Fruit fusiform, 3/4–1 in. long, beaked at both ends. Seeds lenticular, 1/10 in. long, pale brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea shady places, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Congo Lower Guinea Burton!Mozamb. Dist. Shupanga, Dr. Kirk!
Notes
Capillary, leafless, axillary branches often bear both male and female flowers, and resemble peduncles. The young leaves are triangular, as in M. triangularis, but not toothed as in that plant. Also found in Johanna Island. Schweinfurth refers this to M. deltoidea, Thw., of Ceylon (not Benth.), from which it differs widely in the ripe fruit.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MELOTHRIA tridactyla Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
MELOTHRIA Thwaitesii Schweinf. [family CUCURBITACEAE], Reliq. Kotschy. 44, t. 29, excl. syn. and description of fruit.
Information
Glaucous.Stems and branches smooth or scabrid, ultimate capillary. Leaves 1 1/2–4 in. broad, green, triangular in outline, 3-lobed; lobes narrow or broad, the lateral placed at right angles with the middle one which is the longest, all obtuse or acute, apiculate, almost quite entire, scabrid above, glabrous or scabrid on the nerves beneath; petioles short or long, sometimes hispid. Male fl.: Peduncles capillary. Calyx shortly campanulate. Corolla 1/8 in. diameter, yellow. Filaments very short; anthers oblong, all 2-celled, cells parallel, ciliate; connective produced. Female fl.: Peduncles 3/4–2 in. Ovary very slender, long-beaked. Style slender. Fruit fusiform, 3/4–1 in. long, beaked at both ends. Seeds lenticular, 1/10 in. long, pale brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea shady places, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Congo Lower Guinea Burton!Mozamb. Dist. Shupanga, Dr. Kirk!
Notes
Capillary, leafless, axillary branches often bear both male and female flowers, and resemble peduncles. The young leaves are triangular, as in M. triangularis, but not toothed as in that plant. Also found in Johanna Island. Schweinfurth refers this to M. deltoidea, Thw., of Ceylon (not Benth.), from which it differs widely in the ripe fruit.
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