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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. 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 - Cephalandra Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Physedra Hook.f.
- Staphylosyce Hook.f.
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:
- ^ 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.
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