8568.000 Kedrostis
Keraudren-Aymonin, M. (1975) Cucurbitaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Bruxelles
Description of the genus
Prostrate or scandent herbs with tuberous rootstock. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple or 2-fid. Inflorescence few to many in axillary racemes or fascicles, usually pedunculate; flowers small, yellowish; receptacle-tube campanulate, lobes usually small; corolla-lobes 5, united below. Fruit solitary, small to medium-sized, succulent, cylindric-fusiform to globose, often rostrate, red, indehiscent or dehiscent by a longitudinal slit. Seeds asymmetrically ovoid or subglobose, small. Worldwide: 25 species in Old World tropics, mostly Africa. Botswana: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abdallai A. Zimm. | ||
| capensis (Sond.) A. Meeuse | N,SW,SE | |
| crassirostrata Bremek. | N,SW,SE | Image |
| foetidissima (Jacq.) Cogn. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| leloja (Forssk.) C. Jeffrey | N | Description, Image |
| nana (Lam.) Cogn. var. nana | N |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): KedrostisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Kedrostis
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Kedrostis
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Tropicos: Kedrostis
Wikipedia: Kedrostis