Acanthosicyos naudinianus
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| Family: | Curcurbitaceae |
| Full name: | Acanthosicyos naudinianus (Sond.) C.Jeffrey |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Gemsbokkomkommer, Wilde agurkie, Doringkomkommertjie |
| English common name(s): | Gemsbok cucumber, Herero cucumber, Wild melon, Wild watermelon, Wild cucumber, Wild gherkin |
| Synonym(s): | Citrullus naudinianus (Sond.) Hook.f. Colocynthis naudinianus (Sond.) Kuntze Cucumis naudinianus Sond |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Prostrate perennial herb, growing from a tuberous rootstock. Tendrils modified into weak spines. Leaves usually deeply pamately 5-lobed, with lanceolate lobes which are more or less irregularly lobed or toothed again, cordate at the base, softly to roughly hairy on both surfaces, particularly on the veins. Flowers solitary, axillary, sexes on different plants, yellow to white. Fruit ellipsoid to almost round, 6-12 cm long, blue-green, turning pale yellow when ripe, covered in bristle-tipped spines. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
