8628.000 Coccinia Wight & Arn.

Description of the genus

Dioecious climbing perennials. Tendrils simple or proximally 2-fid. Leaves simple, lobed. Flowers creamy-white to deep orange-yellow. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens usually 3, usually all 2-thecous. Female flowers solitary or rarely racemose; ovary smooth; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit spherical, ellipsoid or oblong, red when mature. Style 1.

Worldwide: 30 species in tropical and South Africa, one extending to Malesia

Zimbabwe: 5 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
adoensis (A. Rich.) Cogn.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
barteri (Hook. f.) Keay	E	Description, Image
grandiflora Cogn.	E
rehmannii Cogn.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
senensis (Klotzsch) Cogn.	N

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Flora of Botswana: Coccinia
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Flora of Caprivi: Coccinia
Flora of the DRC: Coccinia
Flora of Malawi: Coccinia
Flora of Mozambique: Coccinia
Flora of Rwanda: Coccinia
Flora of Zambia: Coccinia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Coccinia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Coccinia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Coccinia
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iNaturalist: Coccinia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Coccinia
JSTOR Plant Science: Coccinia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Coccinia
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Tropicos: Coccinia
Wikipedia: Coccinia