5. Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley (1930: 435) (Fig. 7) Basionym:— Cucurbita siceraria Molina (1782: 133). Synonyms:— Cucurbita lagenaria Linnaeus (1753: 1010). Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe (1825: 16). Local Name: —Iko ukod (Annang), Ukpok (Ibibio). Common Name: —Bottle gourd. Habitat: —Cultivated farmland. Key: +++ (Abundant: 21–100 individuals per sampling point); ++ (Frequent: 6–20 individuals per sampling point); + (Rare: 1–5 individuals per sampling point); - (Absent) (according to classification by Shukla & Chandel 1972) Description:— Herb, climbing and trailing by means of tendrils; monoecious. Stem herbaceous, climbing, angular, pubescent, 0.2–0.3 cm diam.; tendrils 2-fid, spirally coiled just above branching point. Leaves simple, alternately arranged, petiolate, exstipulate, scabrid, palmately lobed, deep green, apex acute, dentate, 4–15 × 5–15 cm; petiole cylindrical, 3–5 cm long, herbaceous, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary. Male flowers calyx tubular; corolla white, with 5 free petals, slightly hairy. Fruit round, cylindrical, sometimes irregular in shape, 5–15 cm diam., pedunculate, smooth, green. Location in Akwa Ibom:— Essien Udim, Oruk Anam, Obot Akara, Ikot Ekpene, Ibiono, Ibesikpo Asutan, Mkpat Enin, and Eastern Obolo. Abundance:— It existed in 47% of the sampling areas and was rare in these areas.

Published as part of Umoh, Omodot Timothy & Bassey, Margaret Emmanuel, 2021, Morphology and distribution of species of the family Cucurbitaceae in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, pp. 107-128 in Phytotaxa 508 (2) on pages 113-118, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5425837