Coccinia
Tindola ( Coccinia grandis)
Coccinia is a plant genus of the Cucurbitaceae ( Cucurbitaceae ). The approximately 27 species are native to Africa.
- 4.1 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Coccinia species grow as climbing, perennial, herbaceous plants. The leaves are petiolate or sessile, simple and usually of very variable shape. The tendrils are simple or nearly two-piece.
Generative features
Coccinia species are dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( dioecious ). Bracteoles are present.
The male flowers appear singly, in groups or in short racemose inflorescences. The flower tube is usually short, broad and bell-shaped. The calyx lobes are usually small, separated from each other and tooth-shaped. The crown is fused, five-lobed with ganzrandigen cloth. The Farber of the petals are creamy - white to dark orange - yellow, rarely with a pink twist. The three stamens are usually all bithekisch, rarely has only one theca. The stamens of the flower tube to put on and are usually grown together or hang at least together. The anthers are also connected to a spherical head, rarely they are free. The connectives are wide, the counters are S-shaped bent.
The female flowers are solitary, rarely in racemose inflorescences. The ovary is glabrous and contains many, horizontal standing ovules. The scar is three-lobed.
The fruit is globose to ellipsoid or cylindrical thin-walled, fleshy and red to maturity. The seeds are of ovoid outline and flat.
Dissemination
The genus Coccinia with the exception of occurring in Asia Tindola ( Coccinia grandis) native in tropical and subtropical Africa.
System
The genus Coccinia is placed in the subfamily Cucurbitoideae, Tribe Benincaseae, subtribes Benincasinae within the Cucurbitaceae. The sister taxon is the genus Diplocyclos.
The genus includes 27 species that are well- supported by molecular data:
- Coccinia abyssinica
- Coccinia adoensis
- Coccinia aurantiaca
- Coccinia barteri
- Coccinia grandiflora
- Large scarlet Ranke ( Coccinia grandis)
- Coccinia heterophylla
- Coccinia hirtella
- Coccinia intermedia
- Coccinia keayana
- Coccinia longicarpa
- Coccinia mackenii
- Coccinia megarrhiza
- Coccinia microphylla
- Coccinia mildbraedii
- Coccinia ogadensis
- Coccinia pwaniensis
- Coccinia quinqueloba
- Coccinia racemiflora
- Coccinia rehmannii
- Coccinia samburuensis
- Coccinia schliebenii
- Coccinia senensis
- Coccinia sessilifolia
- Coccinia subsessiliflora
- Coccinia trilobata
- Coccinia ulugurensis
- Coccinia variifolia
Documents
- ADJ Meeuse: The Cucurbitaceae of Southern Africa. In: Bothalia Volume 8, 1962, pp. 95-106
- M. Keraudren: Deux Cucurbitacées nouvelles du Gabon. In: Adansonia water. 2, Volume 8 Number 1, 1968, pp. 39-44
- C. Jeffrey: Coccinia. In: E. Launert (ed.): Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 4, London 1978, ISBN 0-85592-044-0, (online).
- C. Jeffrey, M. Tadesse & J. Hedberg: Coccinia. In: Sue Edwards, Inga Hedberg (eds.): Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea Volume 2, No. 2: Canellaceae to Euphorbiaceae, Addis Ababa / Uppsala, 1995, ISBN 91-971285-1-1.
- CCH Jongkind: A new species of Coccinia ( Cucurbitaceae ) from West Africa. In: Blumea Volume 49, 2004, pp. 83-85, DOI: 10.3767/000651904X486205