CHR 508716 – Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sweet.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 508716
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
29 March 1996
Database record updated:
29 September 2010
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sweet
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1995-05-14 (Verbatim: 14-MAY-1995)
Preferred name:
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sweet.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Violales
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Auckland, Ellerslie, by railway near racecourse
Verbatim locality:
Auckland, Ellerslie, by railway near racecourse
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 36/95
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14-MAY-1995
Start date:
1995-05-14
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Top of large bank outside garden, on shrubs.
Notes:
Vine covering posts. Leaves scabridulous above. Flowers greenish-white. Male flowers 1-20mm across; corolla lobes 6-9mm long, ovate (3-4mm wide). Female flowers 17-20mm across; corolla lobes 8x3.5mm, ovate or oblong-ovate. Fruit 9-11x6.5-8.5cm, (6-7cm deep), more or less broadly obovoid but tending irregular towards apex, with indistinct longitudinal ridge along which are numerous prickles; apex with transverse groove; base sunken with radiating grooves and ridges (all shallow). Seed about 3.5cm by 2.5cm, broad-ellipsoid, flat and thin. A small patch. Apparently adventive.
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