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Cocculus pendulus

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

(J.R. & G. Forster) Diels

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Angola
• Cape Verde Islands
• Chad
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Gulf States
• India
• Iran
• Sinai - Israel
• Kenya
• Libya
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Morocco
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Western Sahara
• Yemen

Natural Habitats

• Desert.

Flowering Times

• Nov-Dec (India)

Fruiting Times

Liana or glabrous woody stem-climbing twining scandent dioecious shrub with coriaceous sometimes lobed mucronate leaves 40mm long x 20mm, axillary fascicles or cymules of greenish male flowers to 1.5mm long, greenish female flowers solitary or in cymules to 1mm long, red berry 7mm x 5mm, glabrous or pubescent leaves

Edible berry

Further References

• Jstor
• Botanicus
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• Botanicus FOTA