| Dicotyledon | Literature for Coccinia grandis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Cucurbitaceae -- The Gourd Family | Bibliography |
| Coccinia grandis | |
Common name(s): ivy gourd, scarlet-fruited gourd |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Africa, Asia, and Australia.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Dioecious, climbing perennial herbs with a tuberous rootstock producing annual stems up to several m long, hispid. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves broadly ovate in outline with a basal sinus, blades 3-10 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, 5-angled to palmately 3-7-lobed, the lobes shallow to deep and lobulate, upper surface glabrate,
lower surface hispid and bearing 3-8 glands near attachment of petiole and major vein branchings, margins denticulate, apex obtuse, mucronate, petioles 1-3 cm long, tendrils unbranched. |
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| Flowers |
Male flowers solitary, rarely in axillary clusters of 2-3, pedicels 15-50 mm long, calyx lobes subulate, recurved, 2-5 mm long, corolla lobes white, ovate, 15-20 mm long; female flowers solitary on stalks 10-30 mm long, hypanthium 10-15 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit red, ovoid to ellipsoid, 25-60 mm long, 15-35 mm in diameter, glabrous, on stalks 10-40 mm long, pulp red. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds tan, 6-7 mm long, margins thickened. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24 |
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