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Coccinia pwaniensis

Botanic Family
Cucurbitaceae
Author
Holstein

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Fruiting Times

Perennial climber or creeper to 3m with glabrous stems. 3-5 lobed mostly glsbrous leaves to 104mm x 114mm with minutely dentate margins, bracts to 3mm, simple tendrils. Male flowers in racemes, calyx lobes to 3.5mm long, pale yellow to pale orange corolla to 26mm long with lobes to 20mm. Solitary red fruit with pale mottling to 80mm x 23mm with sterile apiical tip to 55mm long.

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