Coccinia

Plants

35 species in the Library

About

The scarlet gourds are a genus with 25 species. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species, C. grandis also in South Asia and Southeast 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.

Summary from Wikipedia

Coccinia abyssinica

Coccinia adoensis

Coccinia barteri

Coccinia fernandesiana

Coccinia gabonensis

Coccinia grandiflora

Coccinia grandis

Coccinia heterophylla

Coccinia hirtella

Coccinia intermedia

Coccinia keayana

Coccinia lalambensis

Coccinia longicarpa

Coccinia longipetiolata

Coccinia mackennii

Coccinia macrantha

Coccinia megarrhiza

Coccinia microphylla

Coccinia mildbraedii

Coccinia obbadiensis

Coccinia ogadensis

Coccinia palmata

Coccinia pwaniensis

Coccinia quinqueloba

Coccinia racemiflora

Coccinia rehmannii

Coccinia samburuensis

Coccinia schliebenii

Coccinia schultzei

Coccinia senensis

Coccinia sessilifolia

Coccinia subglabra

Coccinia subhastata

Coccinia subsessiliflora

Coccinia trilobata