Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae
Description:
Species Description - Stem slender, more or less pubescent, 1-2 m. long, with simple filiform tendrils opposite the leaves. Leaves thin, reniform or suborbicular in outline, 4-12 cm. broad, deeply pedately 5-7-lobed, glabrate or pubescent, the lobes dentate, acute or obtuse, the slender petioles 3-6 cm. long; peduncles with an ovate entire cordate bract at or below the middle; sepals oval or ovate, 3- LS mm. long; corolla-segments obtuse or emarginate, 1.5-2 cm. long, yellow; fruit ovoid or oblong, bright yellow, tubercled, 2-12 cm. long; seed- flat, 12-16 mm. long.
Species Description - Stem slender, more or less pubescent, 1-2 m. long, with simple filiform tendrils opposite the leaves. Leaves thin, reniform or suborbicular in outline, 4-12 cm. broad, deeply pedately 5-7-lobed, glabrate or pubescent, the lobes dentate, acute or obtuse, the slender petioles 3-6 cm. long; peduncles with an ovate entire cordate bract at or below the middle; sepals oval or ovate, 3- LS mm. long; corolla-segments obtuse or emarginate, 1.5-2 cm. long, yellow; fruit ovoid or oblong, bright yellow, tubercled, 2-12 cm. long; seed- flat, 12-16 mm. long.
Discussion:
Waste grounds, New Providence at Nassau: southern United States; West Indies and continental tropical America; Old World tropics. Recorded by Dolley as Momordica Balsamina L, WILD Balsam-Apple,
Distribution:
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies|
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies|