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Lagenaria breviflora

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Bentham) Roberty

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• shrubland
• coastal
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jul

Fruiting Times

• Feb

Twining herbaceous tendril climbing vine with glabrous or scabrid stems, 5-lobed leaves scabrid both surface to 125mm x 125mm, nale flowers in racemes to 75mm diameter, white, fragrant, lobed calyx tube to 25mm long, green fruit with yellow or white spots & blotches, yellowish flowers

Further References

• Mobot
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA