Botanical Name / Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey

Genus: Diplocyclos
Group: 1 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - I - Dicotyledons Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Diplocyclos
Common sinhala name
Pasengilla
Habit
Perennial climber
Origin
Native
Conservation status
LC - Least Concern
Legal status
Similar species
All vernacular names
Pasengilla, Hawangilla (S), Red striped cucumber (E)
Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey
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Diplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey

Plant scabrid or subglabrous. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina: 2.5—7 x 3.5—12 cm, ovate-suborbicular in outline, cordate, palmately, deeply 3—5 (—7)-lobed almost to base, sinus generally broad, somewhat shallow, lobes lanceolate, acute to acuminate, coarsely, irregularly serrate, scabrid above with minute raised scales, generally subglabrous beneath, except occasionally sparsely hispid on major nerves. Petiole (0.5—) 2—5 cm long, short-bristly scabrid to glabrous. Flowers greenish-yellow, in subsessile clusters of 3—6; calyx lobes c. 3 mm long, linear-filiform to subulate, connate below; corolla 3—4 mm, lobes ovate-oblong, acute, pubescent. Fruit c. 2 cm diameter, globose, smooth, bluish-green with vertical whitish stripes, ripening red. Seeds 4 x 3 mm, encircled by prominent, raised band, brown. (FOC)

Bryonia laciniosa L. , p.p. , Bryonospis lanciniosa (L.) Naud.



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