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|accepted_name=Coccoloba
|accepted_authority=Browne
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica,
|place=209. 1756
|year=1756
}}
|common_names=Sea-grape
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Coccoloba
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coccoloba]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, coccos, seed or berry, and lobos, capsule or pod, alluding to fleshy hypanthium surrounding fruit
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 216, 218, 479, 480
|treatment_page=page 483
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, evergreen; roots woody. <b>Stems</b> erect or spreading, glabrous or pubescent distally. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, cauline, alternate, petiolate; ocrea often deciduous, membranous to coriaceous; blade lanceolate to round or transversely elliptic, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemelike, pedunculate. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual, some plants having only staminate flowers, others with only pistillate flowers, base stipelike; perianth white or greenish white, campanulate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate proximally, sepaloid, monomorphic. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 1–7 per ocreate fascicle, perianth nonaccrescent; stamens 8; filaments connate at base, adnate to perianth, glabrous; anthers white or bluish white, elliptic to round; pistil rudimentary. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers 1 per ocreate fascicle, perianth accrescent and fleshy in fruit; stamens rudimentary; styles 3, erect, distinct; stigmas capitate. <b>Achenes</b> usually included in fleshy perianth tube, brown to black, unwinged, bluntly 3-gonous, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical;s North America (including Mexico);West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 120 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The hypanthium usually completely invests the achene in both species of <i>Coccoloba</i> in the flora, becoming juicy and somewhat astringent at maturity. The fruits of <i>C. uvifera</i> are edible raw or are used to make jelly or wine (E. L. Little Jr. et al. 1969). Both species also enjoy some popularity in landscaping due to their attractive fruiting racemes and evergreen foliage, which on the two species in the flora is bronze colored when young (R. A. Howard 1958).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades lanceolate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic, length usually 2-3 times width
|[[Coccoloba diversifolia|Coccoloba diversifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades round to transversely elliptic, length equaling or less than width
|[[Coccoloba uvifera|Coccoloba uvifera]]
|}
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name=Coccoloba
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Browne
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|illustrator=Bee F. Gunn
|distribution=Tropical;s North America (including Mexico);West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica,
|publication year=1756
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1008.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Coccoloba
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