Botanical Name - Solena umbellata (J.G.Klein ex Willd.) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes


Group:

1 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - I - Dicotyledons

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Genus:

Solena

Common sinhala name:

Tela-beriya

Habit:

Creeper

Origin:

Native

National conservation status:

LC- Least Concern

Legal status:

Not protected

Similar species:

All vernacular names:

Tela-beriya, Kawudu-Kekiri (S)

Solena umbellata (J.G.Klein ex Willd.) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes

Contributors for Images:

FlowerSL (ID-PMR), Jecob de Vlas (ID-JdV)

Stems long, slender, glabrous; tendrils very long. Leaves: lamina 4—11.5(— 15) x 3.5—7.5(-14) cm, very polymorphic, from broadly ovate lanceolate and coarsely dentate, 3-lobed almost to base with lobes up to eight times longer than broad, entire with lateral lobes spreading or subreflexed, to subtriangular almost always cordate with deep sinuses with many examples appearing auriculate, lobes acute or obtuse, slightly rough-verrucose to subglabrous above, subglabrous beneath; petiole 0.6—0.8 (—1.4) cm long, glabrous to slightly scabrid. Flowers white or creamish. Male flowers shortly pedicellate, up to 20 or more crowded together in pseudo-umbellate corymb c. 2.5 cm long; pedicels up to 1 cm long, slender; calyx-tube c. 2 mm long, lobes 1 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; corolla 5 mm long. Female flowers solitary, axillary; calyx and corolla similar to male; ovary glabrous. Fruit 4 cm long, oblong-ovoid, tapered to a point but not rostrate, obtusely (8—)10-ribbed, smooth, red. Seeds up to 20 in each fruit, usually many fewer, 5 x 3 mm, ovoid, whitish, only slightly compressed. Distr. Throughout tropical Asia. (FOC)
Zehneria umbellata


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