Cucurbitaceae

Coccinia Wight & Arn.

First published in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 347 (1834)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to SW. Pacific.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Brazil Southeast, Caroline Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Guyana, Hawaii, Leeward Is., Marianas, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Samoa, Suriname, Taiwan, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Wake I., Western Australia, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Holstein, N. (2015). Monograph of Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae). PhytoKeys 54: 1-166.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 3: 528.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Prodr. Pl. Ind. Or.: 347 (1834).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Prodr. Pl. Ind. Or.: 347 (1834)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Dec 8, 2008 South Africa K000542638 Type Yes
Dec 8, 2008 South Africa K000542637 Syntype Yes
Aug 10, 2006 Gossweiler, J. [9878] Angola K001307857 Yes
Nov 1, 2003 Ghogue, J.-P. [1046] Cameroon K000198647 Yes
Drummond, R.B.; Hemsley, J.H. [1078] Kenya K:SPC-06500.000 No
Richards, H.M. [24817] K:SPC-37804.000 No
Drummond, R.B.; Hemsley, J.H. [3407] Tanzania K:SPC-18785.000 No
Luke, Q.; Bokara, D.; Hastings, Z.; Mebulo, I.; Miller, S.; Rivas, J. [13568] Equatorial Guinea K001560096 Yes
Kayombo, C.J. [335] Tanzania K001589125 Yes
Wild, H. [40096] Zimbabwe K:SPC-01698.000 No
Ash, J. [804] Ethiopia K:SPC-37866.000 No
Gillett, J.B. [13826] Kenya K:SPC-01692.000 No
Gillett, J.B. [13820] Kenya K:SPC-01702.000 No
Ash, J. [814] Ethiopia K:SPC-37864.000 No
Bally, P.R.O.; Smith, A.R. [B14963] Kenya K:SPC-34608.000 No
Drummond, R.B.; Hemsley, J.H. [2783] Tanzania K:SPC-05139.000 No

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0