View source for Coccinia ← Coccinia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Coccinia |accepted_authority=Wight & Arnott |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. |place=1: 347. 1834 |year=1834 }} |common_names=Ivy gourd |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Coccinia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coccinia]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin coccineus, scarlet, alluding to mature fruit of C. grandis |volume=Volume 6 |mention_page=page 3, 6, 33 |treatment_page=page 44 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, dioecious, climbing or trailing; stems annual, glabrous or glabrate [flocculent-arachnoid]; roots tuberous; tendrils unbranched [2-branched]. <b>Leaves</b>: blade broadly ovate to rounded-cordate, subreniform, or deltate, unlobed or palmately 5-angular or -lobed, lobes deltate or triangular to broadly angular-elliptic, margins denticulate, adaxial surface with circular, sessile scales [hirsute to hirsutulous], often with glands on both sides of midrib near petiole. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate flowers solitary, [clustered, racemose, or in spikes], axillary; pistillate flowers solitary, axillary [racemose]; bracts absent. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium campanulate to turbinate; sepals 5, linear to subulate; petals 5, connate 1/2 length, bright white, often slightly green-veined [brownish yellow or orange], ovate to ovate-triangular, [8–]15–20[–62] mm, hirtellous or puberulent-hirtellous to glabrate, corolla campanulate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 3; filaments inserted near hypanthium base, connate; thecae connate into central column and forming central oblong body, sigmoid-triplicate, connective broadened; pistillodes absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary 3-locular, ovoid to fusiform; ovules ca. 15–40 per locule; style 1, narrowly columnar; stigma 1, 3-lobed; staminodes 3. <b>Fruits</b> pepos, usually green with white streaks or lines, sometimes red to scarlet at maturity, broadly cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric, smooth, glabrous, indehiscent, flesh whitish to greenish. <b>Seeds</b> 30–50[–120], asymmetrically pyriform [ovoid or broadly ellipsoid], compressed, arillate, margins thickened or not bordered, surface fibrillose. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=s;se Asia (India;Malaysia);Africa;introduced also in Pacific Islands. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Coccinia |author= |authority=Wight & Arnott |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Cucurbitaceae |distribution=s;se Asia (India;Malaysia);Africa;introduced also in Pacific Islands. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. |publication year=1834 |special status=Introduced |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_71.xml |genus=Coccinia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Cucurbitaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Cucurbitaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Coccinia.