- Family: Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Peponium Engl.
[FTEA]
Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1967
- Morphology General Habit
- Medium-sized perennial climbing herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves simple; blade palmately lobed
- Morphology General Tendrils
- Tendrils simple or usually proximally bifid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Probracts present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers medium to rather large, white or yellow, dioecious Female flowers solitary; ovary ellipsoid, terete, ± hairy; ovules many, horizontal; receptacle-tube elongated; lobes and petals as in ♂; stigma 3-lobed Male flowers solitary or racemose, often a long-pedicelled solitary flower and a raceme arising from the same axil; racemose flowers bracteate; bracts small to large and then usually ± hooded; receptacle-tube elongated, subcylindrical; lobes linear-lanceolate, narrow, entire; petals 5, entire, free; stamens 3, all 2-thecous, or 3, two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous; filaments free, inserted on the tube; anthers united into a head, included in the tube; connective narrow; thecae triplicate
- sex Male
- Male flowers solitary or racemose, often a long-pedicelled solitary flower and a raceme arising from the same axil; racemose flowers bracteate; bracts small to large and then usually ± hooded; receptacle-tube elongated, subcylindrical; lobes linear-lanceolate, narrow, entire; petals 5, entire, free; stamens 3, all 2-thecous, or 3, two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous; filaments free, inserted on the tube; anthers united into a head, included in the tube; connective narrow; thecae triplicate
- sex Female
- Female flowers solitary; ovary ellipsoid, terete, ± hairy; ovules many, horizontal; receptacle-tube elongated; lobes and petals as in ♂; stigma 3-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit medium-sized, thin-walled, fleshy, subglobose to ellipsoid and beaked, terete, red, indehiscent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds relatively small, elliptic in outline, compressed, lenticular, dark-coloured
- Figures
- Fig. 11, p. 80.
[FZ]
Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Morphology General Habit
- Prostrate or scandent perennial herbs.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves simple, palmately lobed, with scattered disk glands on lower surface.
- Morphology General Tendrils
- Tendrils 2-fid.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flowers solitary; perianth similar to that of male flower; ovary terete; ovules numerous, horizontal; stigma 3-lobed. Male flowers axillary, racemose, rarely solitary, bracteate, the racemes usually accompanied by a long-pedicellate co-axillary solitary flower. Bracts more or less cucullate, membraneous, glandular. Receptacle-tube elongated, more or less cylindrical; lobes lanceolate, narrow, entire. Petals 5, free or shortly united, entire. Stamens 3, all 2-thecous, or two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous, inserted on receptacle-tube, with free filaments and anthers connate into a narrow cylindrical head; connectives narrow; thecae triplicate. Flowers white or yellow, dioecious.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, usually more or less rostrate, terete, smooth, thin-walled, fleshy, indehiscent, red when ripe.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ovoid in outline, compressed, smooth, lenticular, blackish, sometimes obscurely bordered.
Native to:
Aldabra, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Congo, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Peponium betsiliense Keraudren
- Peponium boivinii (Cogn.) Engl.
- Peponium caledonicum (Sond.) Engl.
- Peponium chirindense (Baker f.) Cogn.
- Peponium cienkowskii (Schweinf.) Engl.
- Peponium elgonense Neng Wei, G.W.Hu & Q.F.Wang
- Peponium grandidieri Keraudren
- Peponium hirtellum Keraudren
- Peponium humbertii Keraudren
- Peponium laceratum Keraudren
- Peponium lagenarioides (Hook.f.) Cogn.
- Peponium leucanthum (Gilg) Cogn.
- Peponium mackenii (Naudin) Engl.
- Peponium pageanum C.Jeffrey
- Peponium perrieri Keraudren
- Peponium poissonii Keraudren
- Peponium racemosum Keraudren
- Peponium seyrigii Keraudren
- Peponium sublitorale C.Jeffrey & J.S.Page
- Peponium vogelii (Hook.f.) Engl.
Peponium Engl. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 318 (1897)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 318 (1897).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- in E. & P. Pf., Nachtr.: 318 (1897)
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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