Coccinia

Coccinia
Coccinia grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Benincaseae
Subtribe: Benincasinae
Genus: Coccinia
Wight & Arn.
Species
  • C. abyssinica (Ethiopian scarlet gourd)
  • C. adoensis
  • C. aurantiaca
  • C. barteri
  • C. grandiflora
  • C. grandis (ivy gourd)
  • C. heterophylla
  • C. hirtella
  • C. intermedia
  • C. keayana
  • C. longicarpa
  • C. mackenii
  • C. megarrhiza
  • C. microphylla
  • C. mildbraedii
  • C. ogadensis
  • C. pwaniensis
  • C. quinqueloba
  • C. racemiflora
  • C. rehmannii
  • C. samburuensis
  • C. schliebenii
  • C. senensis
  • C. sessilifolia
  • C. subsessiliflora
  • C. trilobata
  • C. ulugurensis
  • C. variifolia
Synonyms

The Scarlet gourds (Coccinia) is a genus with 28-30 species.[1]. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species in South and Southeast Asia that is also introduced into the New World. It is best known for the cultivated crop C. grandis, the Ivy gourd.

References:

  1. ^ Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. 2011. A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 28. online

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