- Family: Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Coccinia Wight & Arn.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to SW. Pacific.
Descriptions
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Habit
- Scandent perennial herbs.
- Leaves
- Leaves simple, petiolate or sessile, usually very variable in shape.
- Tendrils
- Tendrils simple or proximally 2-fid.
- Bracts
- Probracts present.
- Receptacle
- Receptacle-tube usually short and broad, obconic-campanulate; lobes entire, often small, remote and dentiform, sometimes larger.
- Corolla
- Corolla distinctly gamopetalous, 5-lobed, lobes entire.
- Stamens
- Stamens usually 3, all 2-thecous, less often two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous; filaments inserted on receptacle-tube, usually ± connate or at least coherent into a central column; anthers connate or coherent into a globose head, rarely free; connectives broad; thecae flexuous.
- Flowers
- Female flowers solitary or rarely racemose; ovary smooth; ovules many, horizontal; stigma 3-lobed. Male flowers solitary, clustered or shortly racemose. Flowers creamy-white to deep orange-yellow, sometimes with a pinkish tinge, dioecious.
- Fruits
- Fruit globose to ellipsoid-rostrate or cylindrical, usually terete, thin-walled, fleshy, bright red when mature.
- Seeds
- Seeds ovate in outline, ± compressed; testa fibrillose or minutely rugulose, pale-coloured.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Cucurbitaceae, C. Jeffrey. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1967
- Habit
- Medium-sized climbers or trailers
- Leaves
- Leaves simple, usually very variable in shape
- Tendrils
- Tendrils simple or proximally bifid
- Bracts
- Probracts present
- Flowers
- Flowers medium to large, orange-buff, yellow or brownish-yellow, rarely whitish, often green-veined, dioecious Female flowers solitary or rarely racemose; ovary smooth; ovules many, horizontal; stigma 3-lobed Male flowers solitary, clustered or more usually shortly racemose; receptacle-tube relatively short and broad; lobes entire, often small and dentiform, less often large and calyx-like; corolla distinctly gamopetalous, 5-lobed; lobes entire and devoid of basal scales inside; stamens usually 3, all 2-thecous, sometimes two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous, more rarely stamens 2 or 4; filaments inserted on the tube, connate or coherent apically or sometimes along their whole length then forming a central column, less often free; anthers connate or more usually coherent at the base into a globose head, rarely free; connectives broad; thecae triplicate and usually also transversely ± convoluted
- Male
- Male flowers solitary, clustered or more usually shortly racemose; receptacle-tube relatively short and broad; lobes entire, often small and dentiform, less often large and calyx-like; corolla distinctly gamopetalous, 5-lobed; lobes entire and devoid of basal scales inside; stamens usually 3, all 2-thecous, sometimes two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous, more rarely stamens 2 or 4; filaments inserted on the tube, connate or coherent apically or sometimes along their whole length then forming a central column, less often free; anthers connate or more usually coherent at the base into a globose head, rarely free; connectives broad; thecae triplicate and usually also transversely ± convoluted
- Female
- Female flowers solitary or rarely racemose; ovary smooth; ovules many, horizontal; stigma 3-lobed
- Fruits
- Fruit small to moderately large, globose to elongate-cylindrical, fleshy, terete or less often longitudinally ribbed, baccate, indehiscent, with thin pericarp, red or red mottled with green
- Seeds
- Seeds small, ± compressed, ovate in outline; testa fibrillose
- Figures
- Fig. 8.
Images
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, 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, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Guyana, Hawaii, Leeward Is., Marianas, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Suriname, Taiwan, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Wake I., Western Australia, Windward Is.
Accepted Species
- Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.) Cogn.
- Coccinia adoensis (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Cogn.
- Coccinia barteri (Hook.f.) Keay
- Coccinia grandiflora Cogn. ex Engl.
- Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt
- Coccinia heterophylla (Hook.f.) Holstein
- Coccinia hirtella Cogn.
- Coccinia intermedia Holstein
- Coccinia keayana R.Fern.
- Coccinia lalambensis Penz.
- Coccinia longicarpa Jongkind
- Coccinia longipetiolata Chiov.
- Coccinia mackenii Naudin ex C.Huber
- Coccinia megarrhiza C.Jeffrey
- Coccinia microphylla Gilg
- Coccinia mildbraedii Gilg ex Harms
- Coccinia ogadensis Thulin
- Coccinia pwaniensis Holstein
- Coccinia quinqueloba (Thunb.) Cogn.
- Coccinia racemiflora Keraudren
- Coccinia rehmannii Cogn.
- Coccinia samburuensis Holstein
- Coccinia schliebenii Harms
- Coccinia senensis (Klotzsch) Cogn.
- Coccinia sessilifolia (Sond.) Cogn.
- Coccinia subglabra C.Jeffrey
- Coccinia subsessiliflora Cogn.
- Coccinia trilobata (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey
Synonyms
Other Data
Coccinia Wight & Arn. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 347 (1834)
Accepted by
- Holstein, N. (2015). Monograph of Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae) PhytoKeys 54: 1-166.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —Cogn. in DC. Monogr. 3: 528.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Prodr. Pl. Ind. Or.: 347 (1834).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Prodr. Pl. Ind. Or.: 347 (1834)
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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