Siraitia africana Lu & Zhang 1984
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Botany and Ecological Studies, University of Uyo, Nigeria.
Description
9. Siraitia africana (C.Jeffrey) Lu & Zhang (1984: 30) (Fig. 11)
Basionym:— Thladiantha africana Jeffrey (1962: 361); Homotypic synonym:— Microlagenaria africana (C.Jeffrey) A.M.Lu & J.Q.Li in Li (1993: 53).
Local Name: —Ndise Ekpo (Annang and Ibibio).
Common Name: —Wild pumkin.
Habitat: —Fallow bush.
Description: —Herb, trailing by means of tendrils, could also be pendant hanging from height up to 20 m high. Stem pubescent, angular, 0.4–0.5 cm diam.; tendrils 2-fid, spirally coiled above and below fork. Leaves simple, petiolate, alternate, acuminate, dentate, palmately lobed, villous on both surfaces, 6–18 × 6–19 cm; petiole pubescent, cylindrical, 5–6 cm long. Inflorescence axillary. Fruit pepos, round, pubescent, green and chalky, with white lines appearing vertically on fruit from stalk to tip, stalk 1.5 cm long, bearing terminal leaf. Seed lanceolate, milky, 0.1–0.3 × 0.1 cm.
Location in Akwa Ibom:— Obot Akara and Mkpat Enin.
Abundance:— It was present in 13% of sampling plots and was rare.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lu & Zhang
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Siraitia
- Species
- africana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Siraitia africana Lu, 1984 sec. Umoh & Bassey, 2021
References
- Lu, A. M. & Zhang, Z. Y. (1984) The genus Siraitia Merr. in China. Guihaia 4 (1): 27 - 33.
- Jeffrey, C. (1962) Notes on Cucurbitaceae, including a proposed new classification of the damily. Kew Bulletin 15 (3): 337 - 371. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4115586
- Li, J. Q. (1993) A revision of the genus Siratitia Merr. and two new genera of Cucurbitaceae. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 31 (1): 43 - 55. https: // www. jse. ac. cn / EN / Y 1993 / V 31 / I 1 / 45