Information

Perennial usually prostrate herb; stems up to 1 m. long, hairy with coarse ± aculeate hairs and also with finer intermixed spreading hairs; basal stems thickened with light-coloured bark, arising from a thickened rootstock. Leaf-blade ± ovate in outline, weakly cordate or subtruncate at the base, somewhat sinuate-toothed, very rough-hairy above and beneath, 20–71 mm. long, 20–74 mm. broad, 0.8–1.2 times as long as broad, palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes rather rounded above, somewhat narrowed below, with the central lobe largest, sometimes itself ± 3-lobulate, 20–53 mm. long, 0.7–0.9 times as long as the whole blade, narrowed at its base to 0.3–0.9 of its breadth at its broadest; petiole 10–35 mm. long, hairy like the stems. Male flowers solitary on 3–12 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 2.5–4 mm. long; lobes filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla yellow, with lobes 4–7 mm. long, 2–3.5 mm. broad, united below. Female flowers on 6–12 mm. long stalks; ovary ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. across, covered with forward-pointing hyaline bristles; receptacle-tube 3–4 mm. long; lobes subulate-filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla-lobes 5–9 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. broad. Fruit (fig. 15/3, p. 95) on a 7–25 mm. long stalk, bluntly ellipsoid, 23–50(–88) mm. long, 12–30(–63) mm. across, beset with rather closely scattered broadly conical low pustules each ending in a broad blunt bristle derived from the hairs of the ovary, dark green with 10 longitudinal pale green or grey-green longitudinal stripes, ripening deep yellow. Seeds ellipsoid, 5 × 2.5 × 1.2 mm. Fig. 16/1–7, p. 101.

Information

Perennial usually prostrate herb; stems up to 1 m. long, hairy with coarse ± aculeate hairs and also with finer intermixed spreading hairs; basal stems thickened with light-coloured bark, arising from a thickened rootstock. Leaf-blade ± ovate in outline, weakly cordate or subtruncate at the base, somewhat sinuate-toothed, very rough-hairy above and beneath, 20–71 mm. long, 20–74 mm. broad, 0.8–1.2 times as long as broad, palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes rather rounded above, somewhat narrowed below, with the central lobe largest, sometimes itself ± 3-lobulate, 20–53 mm. long, 0.7–0.9 times as long as the whole blade, narrowed at its base to 0.3–0.9 of its breadth at its broadest; petiole 10–35 mm. long, hairy like the stems. Male flowers solitary on 3–12 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 2.5–4 mm. long; lobes filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla yellow, with lobes 4–7 mm. long, 2–3.5 mm. broad, united below. Female flowers on 6–12 mm. long stalks; ovary ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. across, covered with forward-pointing hyaline bristles; receptacle-tube 3–4 mm. long; lobes subulate-filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla-lobes 5–9 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. broad. Fruit (fig. 15/3, p. 95) on a 7–25 mm. long stalk, bluntly ellipsoid, 23–50(–88) mm. long, 12–30(–63) mm. across, beset with rather closely scattered broadly conical low pustules each ending in a broad blunt bristle derived from the hairs of the ovary, dark green with 10 longitudinal pale green or grey-green longitudinal stripes, ripening deep yellow. Seeds ellipsoid, 5 × 2.5 × 1.2 mm. Fig. 16/1–7, p. 101.

Information

Perennial usually prostrate herb; stems up to 1 m. long, hairy with coarse ± aculeate hairs and also with finer intermixed spreading hairs; basal stems thickened with light-coloured bark, arising from a thickened rootstock. Leaf-blade ± ovate in outline, weakly cordate or subtruncate at the base, somewhat sinuate-toothed, very rough-hairy above and beneath, 20–71 mm. long, 20–74 mm. broad, 0.8–1.2 times as long as broad, palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes rather rounded above, somewhat narrowed below, with the central lobe largest, sometimes itself ± 3-lobulate, 20–53 mm. long, 0.7–0.9 times as long as the whole blade, narrowed at its base to 0.3–0.9 of its breadth at its broadest; petiole 10–35 mm. long, hairy like the stems. Male flowers solitary on 3–12 mm. long pedicels; receptacle-tube 2.5–4 mm. long; lobes filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla yellow, with lobes 4–7 mm. long, 2–3.5 mm. broad, united below. Female flowers on 6–12 mm. long stalks; ovary ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. across, covered with forward-pointing hyaline bristles; receptacle-tube 3–4 mm. long; lobes subulate-filiform, 1.5–2 mm. long; corolla-lobes 5–9 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. broad. Fruit (fig. 15/3, p. 95) on a 7–25 mm. long stalk, bluntly ellipsoid, 23–50(–88) mm. long, 12–30(–63) mm. across, beset with rather closely scattered broadly conical low pustules each ending in a broad blunt bristle derived from the hairs of the ovary, dark green with 10 longitudinal pale green or grey-green longitudinal stripes, ripening deep yellow. Seeds ellipsoid, 5 × 2.5 × 1.2 mm. Fig. 16/1–7, p. 101.