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LAGENARIA abyssinica (Hook. f.) C. Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
LAGENARIA abyssinica (Hook. f.) C. Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE], in K.B. 15: 355 (1962). Type; Ethiopia, Begemedir, valley of R. Rep, Schimper 1195 (K, holo.!)
Adenopus abyssinicus Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 528 (1871); W.F.K.: 27 (1948)
Adenopus reticulatus Gilg [family CUCURBITACEAE], in E.J. 34: 348 (1904). Type: Tanganyika, W. Usambara Mts., Albers 62 (B, holo. †)
Information
Climber or trailer to 4 m.; stems annual, herbaceous, pubescent or puberulous, rooting at the nodes when prostrate. Leaf-blade ovate to ovate-orbicular in outline, weakly cordate, sinuate-toothed, green and ± scabrid above, greenish- or brownish-white-tomentose beneath, 39–173 mm. long, 49–170 mm. broad, palmately 5-lobed; lobes ovate and narrowed below, or ovate to triangular and broadest at the base, sometimes very rounded and almost obsolete; petiole 18–140 mm. long, shortly puberulous to rather long-hairy, rather obscurely biglandular at the apex. Tendrils bifid. Dioecious. Male flowers solitary, on 44–160 mm. long pedicels, or in 2–5-flowered racemes, on 55–310 mm. long peduncles and with 10–55 mm. long pedicels; peduncle and pedicels ± long-hairy; receptacle-tube infundibuliform-cylindrical, obscurely 10-ribbed, sometimes slightly bulbous at the base, slightly narrowed above, puberulous and also usually ± densely hairy with longer fine crisped or adpressed hairs, 23–36 mm. long; lobes triangular-subulate, spreading, rather thick and fleshy, 1.5–12 mm. long, sometimes toothed at the margins; petals white with green nerves below, opening in the evenings, rounded, clawed, 23–45 mm. long, 18–35 mm. broad; anthers elongate-oblong, included, free or coherent in centre of the flower; thecae triplicate and much contorted. Female flowers (fig. 6/4, p. 48) on 35–79 mm. long stalks, ± 80 mm. in diameter, subtended by a spathulate bract ± 12 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, densely white-hairy, 15–29 mm. long, 10–20 mm. across; receptacle-tube 5-angled, flared, 1–3 mm. long; lobes subulate, 2–3 mm. long; petals ± 26–30 mm. long and 24 mm. broad. Fruit on a 63–113 mm. long stalk, ellipsoid or subglobose, 67–230 mm. long, 45–180 mm. across, becoming glabrous, green with white or yellow flecks, hard-shelled, fleshy. Seeds (fig. 6/8, p. 48) pale buff, oblong-pyriform in outline, compressed, tapered to one end, blunt and slightly 2-horned on the shoulders at the other, with 2 flat ridges on the faces running from the horns at one end and meeting at the other, 13 × 6 × 2.5 mm. Fig. 6/1, p. 48.
Range
DISTR. U2; K2–6; T2, 6, 7 eastern Congo and Sudan Republics,
Altitude range
1350–2750 m.
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk District Kapenguria, May 1932, Napier 1945!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 16 June 1957, Symes 96!KENYA Nairobi, 15 Apr, 1931, Napier 864!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Lyamungu, 30 Nov. 1943, Wallace 1142!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Mgeta R. valley above Bunduki, 12 Mar, 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1491!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Poroto Mts., Ngozi, 16 Oct. 1956, Richards 6501!UGANDA Ankole District Buhwezu, Nsika, 25 Sept. 1957, Lind 2197!UGANDA Kigezi District Ruhinda, Jan. 1951, Purseglove 3559! & Kanaba Gap, May 1951, Purseglove 3626!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
LAGENARIA abyssinica (Hook. f.) C. Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE], in K.B. 15: 355 (1962). Type; Ethiopia, Begemedir, valley of R. Rep, Schimper 1195 (K, holo.!)
Adenopus abyssinicus Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 528 (1871); W.F.K.: 27 (1948)
Adenopus reticulatus Gilg [family CUCURBITACEAE], in E.J. 34: 348 (1904). Type: Tanganyika, W. Usambara Mts., Albers 62 (B, holo. †)
Information
Climber or trailer to 4 m.; stems annual, herbaceous, pubescent or puberulous, rooting at the nodes when prostrate. Leaf-blade ovate to ovate-orbicular in outline, weakly cordate, sinuate-toothed, green and ± scabrid above, greenish- or brownish-white-tomentose beneath, 39–173 mm. long, 49–170 mm. broad, palmately 5-lobed; lobes ovate and narrowed below, or ovate to triangular and broadest at the base, sometimes very rounded and almost obsolete; petiole 18–140 mm. long, shortly puberulous to rather long-hairy, rather obscurely biglandular at the apex. Tendrils bifid. Dioecious. Male flowers solitary, on 44–160 mm. long pedicels, or in 2–5-flowered racemes, on 55–310 mm. long peduncles and with 10–55 mm. long pedicels; peduncle and pedicels ± long-hairy; receptacle-tube infundibuliform-cylindrical, obscurely 10-ribbed, sometimes slightly bulbous at the base, slightly narrowed above, puberulous and also usually ± densely hairy with longer fine crisped or adpressed hairs, 23–36 mm. long; lobes triangular-subulate, spreading, rather thick and fleshy, 1.5–12 mm. long, sometimes toothed at the margins; petals white with green nerves below, opening in the evenings, rounded, clawed, 23–45 mm. long, 18–35 mm. broad; anthers elongate-oblong, included, free or coherent in centre of the flower; thecae triplicate and much contorted. Female flowers (fig. 6/4, p. 48) on 35–79 mm. long stalks, ± 80 mm. in diameter, subtended by a spathulate bract ± 12 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, densely white-hairy, 15–29 mm. long, 10–20 mm. across; receptacle-tube 5-angled, flared, 1–3 mm. long; lobes subulate, 2–3 mm. long; petals ± 26–30 mm. long and 24 mm. broad. Fruit on a 63–113 mm. long stalk, ellipsoid or subglobose, 67–230 mm. long, 45–180 mm. across, becoming glabrous, green with white or yellow flecks, hard-shelled, fleshy. Seeds (fig. 6/8, p. 48) pale buff, oblong-pyriform in outline, compressed, tapered to one end, blunt and slightly 2-horned on the shoulders at the other, with 2 flat ridges on the faces running from the horns at one end and meeting at the other, 13 × 6 × 2.5 mm. Fig. 6/1, p. 48.
Range
DISTR. U2; K2–6; T2, 6, 7 eastern Congo and Sudan Republics,
Altitude range
1350–2750 m.
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk District Kapenguria, May 1932, Napier 1945!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 16 June 1957, Symes 96!KENYA Nairobi, 15 Apr, 1931, Napier 864!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Lyamungu, 30 Nov. 1943, Wallace 1142!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Mgeta R. valley above Bunduki, 12 Mar, 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1491!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Poroto Mts., Ngozi, 16 Oct. 1956, Richards 6501!UGANDA Ankole District Buhwezu, Nsika, 25 Sept. 1957, Lind 2197!UGANDA Kigezi District Ruhinda, Jan. 1951, Purseglove 3559! & Kanaba Gap, May 1951, Purseglove 3626!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: C. Jeffrey
Names
LAGENARIA abyssinica (Hook. f.) C. Jeffrey [family CUCURBITACEAE], in K.B. 15: 355 (1962). Type; Ethiopia, Begemedir, valley of R. Rep, Schimper 1195 (K, holo.!)
Adenopus abyssinicus Hook. f. [family CUCURBITACEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 528 (1871); W.F.K.: 27 (1948)
Adenopus reticulatus Gilg [family CUCURBITACEAE], in E.J. 34: 348 (1904). Type: Tanganyika, W. Usambara Mts., Albers 62 (B, holo. †)
Information
Climber or trailer to 4 m.; stems annual, herbaceous, pubescent or puberulous, rooting at the nodes when prostrate. Leaf-blade ovate to ovate-orbicular in outline, weakly cordate, sinuate-toothed, green and ± scabrid above, greenish- or brownish-white-tomentose beneath, 39–173 mm. long, 49–170 mm. broad, palmately 5-lobed; lobes ovate and narrowed below, or ovate to triangular and broadest at the base, sometimes very rounded and almost obsolete; petiole 18–140 mm. long, shortly puberulous to rather long-hairy, rather obscurely biglandular at the apex. Tendrils bifid. Dioecious. Male flowers solitary, on 44–160 mm. long pedicels, or in 2–5-flowered racemes, on 55–310 mm. long peduncles and with 10–55 mm. long pedicels; peduncle and pedicels ± long-hairy; receptacle-tube infundibuliform-cylindrical, obscurely 10-ribbed, sometimes slightly bulbous at the base, slightly narrowed above, puberulous and also usually ± densely hairy with longer fine crisped or adpressed hairs, 23–36 mm. long; lobes triangular-subulate, spreading, rather thick and fleshy, 1.5–12 mm. long, sometimes toothed at the margins; petals white with green nerves below, opening in the evenings, rounded, clawed, 23–45 mm. long, 18–35 mm. broad; anthers elongate-oblong, included, free or coherent in centre of the flower; thecae triplicate and much contorted. Female flowers (fig. 6/4, p. 48) on 35–79 mm. long stalks, ± 80 mm. in diameter, subtended by a spathulate bract ± 12 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, densely white-hairy, 15–29 mm. long, 10–20 mm. across; receptacle-tube 5-angled, flared, 1–3 mm. long; lobes subulate, 2–3 mm. long; petals ± 26–30 mm. long and 24 mm. broad. Fruit on a 63–113 mm. long stalk, ellipsoid or subglobose, 67–230 mm. long, 45–180 mm. across, becoming glabrous, green with white or yellow flecks, hard-shelled, fleshy. Seeds (fig. 6/8, p. 48) pale buff, oblong-pyriform in outline, compressed, tapered to one end, blunt and slightly 2-horned on the shoulders at the other, with 2 flat ridges on the faces running from the horns at one end and meeting at the other, 13 × 6 × 2.5 mm. Fig. 6/1, p. 48.
Range
DISTR. U2; K2–6; T2, 6, 7 eastern Congo and Sudan Republics,
Altitude range
1350–2750 m.
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk District Kapenguria, May 1932, Napier 1945!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 16 June 1957, Symes 96!KENYA Nairobi, 15 Apr, 1931, Napier 864!TANGANYIKA Moshi District Lyamungu, 30 Nov. 1943, Wallace 1142!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Mgeta R. valley above Bunduki, 12 Mar, 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1491!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Poroto Mts., Ngozi, 16 Oct. 1956, Richards 6501!UGANDA Ankole District Buhwezu, Nsika, 25 Sept. 1957, Lind 2197!UGANDA Kigezi District Ruhinda, Jan. 1951, Purseglove 3559! & Kanaba Gap, May 1951, Purseglove 3626!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
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