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|accepted_name=Coccinia
|accepted_authority=Wight & Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.
|place=1: 347. 1834
|year=1834
}}
|common_names=Ivy gourd
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Coccinia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Coccinia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin coccineus, scarlet, alluding to mature fruit of C. grandis
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 3, 6, 33
|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism reproduction;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism orientation;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>perennial, dioecious, climbing or trailing;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem duration;stem pubescence;stem pubescence">stems annual, glabrous or glabrate [flocculent-arachnoid];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="root architecture">roots tuberous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="tendril architecture">tendrils unbranched [2-branched].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;lobe shape;margin shape;scale arrangement or shape;scale architecture"><b>Leaves:</b> blade broadly ovate to rounded-cordate, subreniform, or deltate, unlobed or palmately 5-angular or lobed, lobes deltate or triangular to broadly angular-elliptic, margins denticulate, adaxial surface with circular, sessile scales [hirsute to hirsutulous], often with glands on both sides of midrib near petiole.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower position"><b>Inflorescences:</b> staminate flowers solitary, [clustered, racemose, or in spikes], axillary;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower position">pistillate flowers solitary, axillary [racemose];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bract presence">bracts absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="hypanthium shape"><b>Flowers:</b> hypanthium campanulate to turbinate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal shape">sepals 5, linear to subulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="petal quantity;petal fusion;petal length;petal coloration;petal architecture;petal shape;petal atypical some measurement;petal atypical some measurement;petal some measurement;petal pubescence;corolla shape">petals 5, connate 1/2 length, bright white, often slightly green-veined [brownish yellow or orange], ovate to ovate-triangular, [8–] 15–20 [–62] mm, hirtellous or puberulent-hirtellous to glabrate, corolla campanulate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="flower architecture;stamen quantity"><b>Staminate </b>flowers: stamens 3;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="flower architecture;filament fusion">filaments inserted near hypanthium base, connate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="flower architecture;theca fusion;central body shape;connective width">thecae connate into central column and forming central oblong body, sigmoid-triplicate, connective broadened;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="flower architecture;pistillode presence">pistillodes absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="flower architecture;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary shape"><b>Pistillate </b>flowers: ovary 3-locular, ovoid to fusiform;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="flower architecture;ovule quantity">ovules ca. 15–40 per locule;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="flower architecture;style quantity;style shape">style 1, narrowly columnar;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="flower architecture;stigma quantity;stigma shape">stigma 1, 3-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="flower architecture;staminode quantity">staminodes 3.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="fruits pepo coloration;fruits pepo coloration;fruits pepo shape;fruits pepo architecture or pubescence or relief;fruits pepo pubescence;fruits pepo dehiscence;streak coloration;flesh coloration"><b>Fruits </b>pepos, usually green with white streaks or lines, sometimes red to scarlet at maturity, broadly cylindric to ellipsoid-cylindric, smooth, glabrous, indehiscent, flesh whitish to greenish.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity;seed shape;seed shape;seed architecture;margin size or width;margin architecture"><b>Seeds </b>30–50 [–120], asymmetrically pyriform [ovoid or broadly ellipsoid], compressed, arillate, margins thickened or not bordered, surface fibrillose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="surface texture;x chromosome quantity">x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=s;se Asia (India);se Asia (Malaysia);Africa;also in Pacific Islands
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (1 in the flora).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Coccinia
|authority=Wight & Arnott
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|distribution=s;se Asia (India);se Asia (Malaysia);Africa;also in Pacific Islands
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.
|publication year=1834
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Coccinia
|blade shape=broadly ovate;rounded-cordate subreniform or deltate unlobed or palmately 5-angular or lobed
|bract presence=absent
|central body shape=oblong
|connective width=broadened
|corolla shape=campanulate
|filament fusion=connate
|flesh coloration=whitish;greenish
|flower architecture=pistillate;pistillate;pistillate;pistillate;pistillate;staminate;staminate;staminate;staminate;pistillate;staminate
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary;solitary
|flower position=axillary;axillary
|fruits pepo architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|fruits pepo coloration=red;scarlet
|fruits pepo dehiscence=indehiscent
|fruits pepo pubescence=glabrous
|fruits pepo shape=broadly cylindric;ellipsoid-cylindric
|hypanthium shape=campanulate;turbinate
|lobe shape=triangular;broadly angular-elliptic
|margin architecture=not bordered
|margin shape=denticulate
|margin size or width=thickened
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=3-locular
|ovary shape=ovoid;fusiform
|ovule quantity=15;40
|petal architecture=green-veined
|petal atypical some measurement=20mm;62mm
|petal coloration=bright white
|petal fusion=connate
|petal length=1/2
|petal pubescence=puberulent-hirtellous;glabrate
|petal quantity=5
|petal shape=ovate;ovate-triangular
|petal some measurement=15mm;20mm
|pistillode presence=absent
|root architecture=tuberous
|scale architecture=sessile
|scale arrangement or shape=circular
|seed architecture=arillate
|seed atypical quantity=50;120
|seed quantity=30;50
|seed shape=compressed;pyriform
|sepal quantity=5
|sepal shape=linear;subulate
|stamen quantity=3
|staminode quantity=3
|stem duration=annual
|stem pubescence=glabrate;glabrous
|stigma quantity=1
|stigma shape=3-lobed
|streak coloration=white
|style quantity=1
|style shape=columnar
|surface texture=fibrillose
|tendril architecture=unbranched
|theca fusion=connate
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=plant;climbing
|whole_organism orientation=trailing
|whole_organism reproduction=dioecious
|x chromosome quantity=12
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