| Sample ID | 280-9-1 |
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| Species | siceraria |
| Genus | Lagenaria |
| Family | CUCURBITACEAE |
| Common name | bottle gourd, calabash |
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| Pollen / Spore | pollen |
|---|---|
| Morphologic type | tricolporate |
| Surface pattern | reticulate |
| Equatorial size | mean 55 |
| Polar size | mean 55 |
| Equatorial shape | circular |
| Polar shape | circular |
| Grain arrangement | dicot |
| Aperture count | 3 |
| Wall thickness | 3.5 |
| Exine type | tectate |
| Morphology notes | Tricolporate. Psilate/tectate. Heavily reticulated with thick exine 3.5um. Pore transverse wider than colpus. |
| Plant type | angiosperm |
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| Floristic region(s) | Other outside Australasia |
| Cultivated? | True |
| Vegetation communities | herbland |
| Habitat notes | The calabash has been found growing mainly on alluvial sandy soil and red loam, on flat areas and moderate slopes, on rocky ridges, on river banks and in dry river beds, in disturbed areas and close to the road, often in the shade. It is common in riverine thickets, but also in woodland and savanna with Acacia, Colophospermum mopane, Faidherbia albida and Phragmites . It can also be found in cultivated lands with Sorghum and maize. Is indigenous to Africa and that it reached temperate and tropical areas in Asia and the Americas about 10 000 years ago, with human help or probably as a wild species whose fruits had floated across the seas. |
| Collector | Exchange slide, Arizona |
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| ANU access code | 4849 |
| Collection site | La Jolla, California |
| Collection country | United States of America |
| Collection date | 2004-10-27 |
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