Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii
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Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii is a species of plant in the moonseed family from West and Central Africa to Sudan .
description
Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii grows as a perennial , herbaceous to more or less woody liana a few meters high or creeps over the ground. The slender shoot axes are more or less bristly hairy.
The long-stemmed, simple leaves are alternate and dimorphic . The more or less hairy petiole is up to 15 centimeters long. The leaves are partly undivided, ovate to broadly ovate in outline, but more often arrow to heart shaped and three to five lobed to cleft or with small to large teeth on the edge, the lobes or teeth are each pointed or pointed to pointed. The leaf margin is completely to slightly or slightly serrated. The leaves are up to 20 centimeters long and wide and almost bare. The nerve is hand-shaped and impressed on the upper side.
Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii is dioecious dioecious . Axillary and long-stemmed, slender racemose inflorescences are formed, the males are up to 30 centimeters long, the females are a lot shorter. The very small, yellow-green and unisexual flowers with a simple perimeter are petiolate, the petals are missing. There are 6–8 slightly fleshy and laid back sepals in two circles. The male flowers have 3-6 deformed in a short, mushroom-shaped Synadrium stamens , the female 3-6 Upper permanent and free stamp with thickened, seated scars .
Red, up to 3.5 centimeters in size and egg-shaped to rounded, smooth, single-seeded stone fruits with small remnants of scars at the top are formed. The large, warty stone core is bony.
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Rhopalandria cumminsii in 1898 by Otto Stapf in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 71. The reallocation to Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii was done in 1910 by Ludwig Diels in HGAEngler, Pflanzenr., IV, 94: 181.
use
The edible fruits are very sweet, they contain monellin , a substance thousand times sweeter than table sugar .
The roots are edible, they can be eaten like yams or potatoes .
literature
- Reinhard Lieberei, Christoph Reisdorff: Crop science. 7th edition, Thieme, 2007, ISBN 978-3-13-530407-6 , p. 311.
Web links
- Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii at PROTA.
- Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii near Flora of Mozambique (pictures).