Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Lianes. Tendrils 2-fid. Leaves compound, pedately 3-7-foliolate.
Male flowers many, in racemes. Female flowers solitary; stigma 3-lobed.
Petals 2-3.5 cm, large, purplish, fringed with filaments.
Fruit large, 30 - 90 cm, ribbed, ellipsoid with base lobed and expanded. Seeds large, broadly ovate to ± circular, flattened.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Telfairia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1438
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
