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Description

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Perennial climber with prostrate or scandent stems up to 3 m long. Tendrils 2-fid. Leaves compound, pedately 3-7-foliolate; leaflets ovate or elliptic, unlobed with a somewhat sandpapery surface and finely dentate margins; median leaflet largest, 3.5-11 cm long; lateral leflets smaller, asymmetric at the base. Flowers unisexual on different plants; petals unequal, lower 3 larger than upper 2, cream or yellow with an orange mark at the base. Male flowers c. 4 cm wide, in several to many-flowered axillary inflorescences; female flowers solitary, slightly smaller than male. Fruit fusiform, 4.5-6.5 cm long, beaked, with 8 longitudinal rows of tuberles, bright orange or red when ripe, splitting into 3 valves.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Momordica anigosantha Hook. f. Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=167880
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.
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). Momordica anigosantha Hook. f. Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=167880
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe