- Family:
- Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Peponium Engl.
Peponium cienkowskii (Schweinf.) Engl.
[FTEA]
Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1967
- Morphology General Habit
- Trailing or climbing herb; stems glabrous or ± hispid-hairy.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-blade broadly reniform-cordate in outline, subscabrid-punctate or hispid above, ± hairy on the nerves beneath, sinuate-toothed, 61–95 mm. long, 92–140 mm. broad, unlobed or palmately 3–5-lobed to about two-thirds; lobes broadly ovate, narrowed below, sometimes obscurely 3-lobulate, apiculate; petiole ± hispid, 18–48 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Probracts 3–4 mm. long, 2–3 mm. broad.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers 4–14 in 75–190 mm. long racemes; peduncle 36–65 mm. long; pedicels 1–10 mm. long; bracts ovate to spathulate, entire or toothed, ± cucullate, 1.5–11 mm. long, 1–2 mm. broad; receptacle-tube obconic-cylindrical, slightly bulbous at the base, crisped-hairy, 12–16 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, 4–4.5 mm. long; petals yellow with green veins, 20–23 mm. long, 14–19 mm. broad. Female flowers subsessile (stalks ± 2 mm. long); ovary shortly hairy, 14 mm. long, 2 mm. across.
- sex Male
- Male flowers 4–14 in 75–190 mm. long racemes; peduncle 36–65 mm. long; pedicels 1–10 mm. long; bracts ovate to spathulate, entire or toothed, ± cucullate, 1.5–11 mm. long, 1–2 mm. broad; receptacle-tube obconic-cylindrical, slightly bulbous at the base, crisped-hairy, 12–16 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, 4–4.5 mm. long; petals yellow with green veins, 20–23 mm. long, 14–19 mm. broad.
- sex Female
- Female flowers subsessile (stalks ± 2 mm. long); ovary shortly hairy, 14 mm. long, 2 mm. across.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit on a ± 8 mm. long stalk, ellipsoid, orange when ripe, shortly and sparsely adpressed-hairy, 65–85 mm. long, 23–35 mm. across.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds lenticular, 7.5 × 4 × 2 mm.
- Figures
- Fig. 11/8, p. 80.
- Habitat
- Among rocks in deciduous and upland evergreen bushland; 1000–1830 m.
- Distribution
- K1 U1
Native to:
Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda
Peponium cienkowskii (Schweinf.) 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
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Edwards, S., Tadesse, M. & Hedberg, I. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 2(2): 1-456. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
- Jeffrey, C. (1967). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Cucurbitaceae: 1-156.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Engl. in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Nachtr.: 318 (1897).
- F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1: 183 (1950).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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