Lagenaria siceraria Standley 1930
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Botany and Ecological Studies, University of Uyo, Nigeria.
Description
5. Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley (1930: 435) (Fig. 7)
Basionym:— Cucurbita siceraria Molina (1782: 133).
Synonyms:— Cucurbita lagenaria Linnaeus (1753: 1010).
Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe (1825: 16).
Local Name: —Iko ukod (Annang), Ukpok (Ibibio).
Common Name: —Bottle gourd.
Habitat: —Cultivated farmland.
Key: +++ (Abundant: 21–100 individuals per sampling point); ++ (Frequent: 6–20 individuals per sampling point); + (Rare: 1–5 individuals per sampling point); - (Absent) (according to classification by Shukla & Chandel 1972)
Description:— Herb, climbing and trailing by means of tendrils; monoecious. Stem herbaceous, climbing, angular, pubescent, 0.2–0.3 cm diam.; tendrils 2-fid, spirally coiled just above branching point. Leaves simple, alternately arranged, petiolate, exstipulate, scabrid, palmately lobed, deep green, apex acute, dentate, 4–15 × 5–15 cm; petiole cylindrical, 3–5 cm long, herbaceous, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary. Male flowers calyx tubular; corolla white, with 5 free petals, slightly hairy. Fruit round, cylindrical, sometimes irregular in shape, 5–15 cm diam., pedunculate, smooth, green.
Location in Akwa Ibom:— Essien Udim, Oruk Anam, Obot Akara, Ikot Ekpene, Ibiono, Ibesikpo Asutan, Mkpat Enin, and Eastern Obolo.
Abundance:— It existed in 47% of the sampling areas and was rare in these areas.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Standley
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Lagenaria
- Species
- siceraria
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lagenaria siceraria Standley, 1930 sec. Umoh & Bassey, 2021
References
- Standley, P. C. (1930) Flora of Yucatan. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History. Botanical Series 3 (3): 157 - 492. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 2354
- Molina, G. I. (1782) Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologona, 367 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62689
- Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species Plantarum. Vol. 2. Salvius, Stockholm, 639 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 669
- Seringe, N. C. (1825) Memoire sur les Cucurbitacees 3 (1): 1 - 32. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10398151 # page / 9 / mode / 1 up]
- Shukla, R. S. & Chandel, P. S. (1972) A textbook of plant ecology including ethnobotany and soil science. S. Chand & Company LTD, New Dehli, 562 pp.