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coccinia
Coccinia
The scarlet gourds are a genus (Coccinia from the Greek, kokkinia or kokkinias - "red" or "scarlet") with 25 species. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species, C. grandis also in South and South-east Asia, and it is also introduced into the New World. Incidentally, C. grandis is also a cultivated crop and it is used for culinary and medical purposes.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Ivy gourd
speciesCoccinia grandis
Cucumber Bushpumpkin
speciesCoccinia rehmannii
Bospampoentjie
speciesCoccinia mackenii
Baboon Bushpumpkin
speciesCoccinia adoensis
Porcupine Bushpumpkin
speciesCoccinia sessilifolia
Fivelobe Bushpumpkin
speciesCoccinia quinqueloba
Coccinia grandiflora
speciesCoccinia grandiflora
Coccinia mildbraedii
speciesCoccinia mildbraedii
Coccinia hirtella
speciesCoccinia hirtella
Coccinia barteri
speciesCoccinia barteri
Coccinia trilobata
speciesCoccinia trilobata
Coccinia abyssinica
speciesCoccinia abyssinica
Coccinia senensis
speciesCoccinia senensis
Coccinia microphylla
speciesCoccinia microphylla
Coccinia intermedia
speciesCoccinia intermedia
Coccinia racemiflora
speciesCoccinia racemiflora
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157131.