Global InformationTelfairia pedata information
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Cucurbitales |
| Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Genus: | Telfairia |
| Species: | T. pedata
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| Telfairia pedata (Sm. ex Sims) Hook.[1]
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Telfairia pedata, commonly known as oysternut[4] (alternately spelled as 'oyster nut', etc.[5]), queen's nut,[4] Zanzibar oilvine[4] (alternately spelled as 'oil vine', etc.[5]), kweme or kulekula, is a dioecious African liana which can grow up to 30 metres long, having purple-pink fringed flowers, and very large (30–90 cm × 15–25 cm), many-seeded, drooping, ellipsoid berries which can weigh up to 15 kg[5] (though one old source from 1882 claimed up to 60 lbs).[6] It is valuable for having edible fruit, seeds and oil.[5]
- ^ Under its treatment as Telfairia pedata (from its basionym, Fevillea pedata) this name was first published in Botanical Magazine 54: t. 2751–52. 1827. "Name - Telfairia pedata (Sm. ex Sims) Hook". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ "Name - Telfairia pedata (Sm. ex Sims) Hook. synonyms". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Fevillea pedata, the basionym of T. pedata, was originally described and published in Botanical Magazine 53: t. 2681. 1826. "Name - Fevillea pedata Sm. ex Sims". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
Annotation: as "Feuillea"
- ^ a b c "Telfairia pedata". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c d B.E. Okoli. "Protabase Record display for Telfairia pedata". Protabase. prota.org. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
N O T E : if link has expired, search for Telfairia pedata at Protabase.org Archived 2011-12-16 at the Wayback Machine - ^ Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, Robert Wilkinson Furnas, and Thomas Clive Jones (1882). Report on the climate and agricultural features and the agricultural practice and needs of the arid regions of the Pacific slope, with notes on Arizona and New Mexico. United States. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 143.
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