Coccinia pwaniensis

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Coccinia pwaniensis
Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden I
Order : Pumpkin-like (Cucurbitales)
Family : Pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae)
Genre : Coccinia
Type : Coccinia pwaniensis
Scientific name
Coccinia pwaniensis
Holstein

Coccinia pwaniensis is a type of plant from the cucurbitaceae family from East Africa.

features

Coccinia pwaniensis is a perennial herbaceous climbing plant with up to 3 m long stem axes . The young stems are green and bare and form a gray to reddish-gray bark. The leaves are alternate, have a 0.6 to 4.1 cm long stem and are simple. The leaf blade is 2–10.4 × 2.7–11.4 cm in size and more or less deep, mostly 3, rarely 5-lobed. The petiole and the underside of the leaves have rather sparsely upright hairs that appear like small warts when they are broken off. The tendrils are simple. Probracts 2 to 3 mm long are at the nodes .

The species is dioecious separately sexed ( diocesan ). In male plants the flowers are in multi-flowered panicles and in female plants individually. Flowers are five-fold and calyx and crown are each fused together. The lobes of the calyx are 2.5 to 3.5 mm long, erect and subpulate. The corolla is 1.7 to 2.6 cm long and pale yellowish-orange in color. The three stamens are fused into a column with a spherical anthers head . The ovaries in female flowers consists of three parts, including earth and carries numerous ovules. The fruit is a fleshy, (scarlet) red armored berry 6.2 to 8 cm long, 1.8 to 2.3 cm in diameter and a short cylindrical shape. The seeds are gray-beige, 6.5–7 × 4–4.5 × approx. 1.5 mm, more or less symmetrically egg-shaped and are lenticularly curved.

distribution

Coccinia pwaniensis is also known from the coastal forests of the Pugu Hills near Dar es Salaam.

Coccinia pwaniensis is a species of the northern coastal rainforests of East Africa. It is known only from a few forest remains in southeastern Kenya and the Tanzanian region of Pwani , but it is also suspected in the regions of Tanga and Dar es Salaam .

Origin of name

The name of the species pwaniensis is derived from the Swahili word for "coast" and refers to the distribution of the species.

Hybridization

A natural hybrid with Coccinia grandis is known from Coccinia pwaniensis . However, the hybrid is sterile.

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