Modecca
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Modecca (an E. Indian name). Passiflordceae. Thirty or more species of erect or twining and tendril- climbing plants in the tropics of Afr., Asia, Austral., little known in cult. Herbs or undershrubs: lvs. alternate, entire or palmately 3-5-lobed, gland-bearing at base of blade: fl.-stalks axillary, terminating in a tendril, bearing greenish or whitish unisexual fls., the hypanthium or calyx-tube not elongated; male fls. with 5 very narrow laciniate petals included within the fl.-tube, 4-5 stamens and 5 staminodes or disk- glands; female fls. with 10 staminodes or disk-glands in 2 series, and astipitate 1-celled ovary; both kinds of fls. with a corona of interesting structure: fr. a coriaceous or fleshy 3-valved or indehiscent caps. M. senensis, Mast. (Clemanthus senensis, Klotzsch. Adenia senensis, Engler), is a tall-climbing shrub from Senna, Zambesi and other places in Trop. Afr.: glabrous and rather glaucous: Ivs. 5-parted, pale green, glaucous beneath, the segms. narrow and obtuse: calyx coroHa-like, pale yellow, narrow campanulate, about 1 in. long; petals very small and contained within the calyx. B.M. 7763.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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