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Coccinia grandis
Coccinia grandis
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) J. Voigt
- Conservation Status
- Least concern
Common Names
- Matombo Ya Nyoka (Kisambaa)
- Snake Breasts
- Mudesselema (Kihehe)
- Hotwe (Kipare)
- Matombo Shanga (Kishamba)
- Matombo Ya Nyoka (Kisamba)
Geographical Habitats
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- N. Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- S. Chad
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Yunnan - China
- Djibouti
- Eritraea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Mali
- S. Mauritania
- Myannmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- S. & E. Sudan
- N. Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zaire
Natural Habitats
- Moist
- rough places
- riverine forests
- montane thickets
- hedgerows
- shrubland
- grassland
- savanna
- thickets
- riverside
- woodland
- forests
- grassland
Flowering Times
- Aug-Sep (India)
- May-Aug (East Indies)
- All year (Sri Lanka)
Fruiting Times
Dioecious herbaceous or woody perennial glabrous simple or bifid-tendril climbing or prostrate herb or woody liana to 20m, with angular grooved glabrous or white-pustulate stems. Glabrous palmate 3- 5 angled or lobed pentagonal denticulate leaves to 110mm x 130mm with strigose margins, scabrid, may have bracts to 1.5mm. 100mm diameter male flowers which may have bracts to 1mm, solitary axillary or in short cymes or racemes, calyx lobes to 3.5mm long, yellow-brown to white corolla to 40mm long, corolla lobes to 17mm x 10mm, 40mm white, pale yellow or yellow orange flowers, female flowers axillary solitary calyx & corolla similar to male. Glabrous prickly oblong fruit scarlet to 70mmx 15mm with white streaks or spots,
Fruits edible or poisonous, leaves have medicinal uses.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Pijpers 1986
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- FOH
- NYBG
- FOC
- JDH
- J.S. Gamble
- The Plant List 2
- BF
- RSNRV
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Phyto-Keys