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Cucumis metulifer

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

E. Meyer ex Naudin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forest
• forest
• woodland
• forest edge
• secondary woodlan
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jun

Simple tendril annual climber with bristly hairy angled stems, hairy leaves 100mm diameter with 3-5 toothed lobes,hispid male calyx, 60mm pale green or yellow female flowers with prickly ovary, 125mmlong orange marked red fruits with black-green 12mm long spines

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Rubatzky 1997
• FCP
• Welw
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA