8628.000 Coccinia Wight & Arn.

Description of the genus

Dioecious climbing perennials. Tendrils simple or proximally 2-fid. Leaves simple, lobed. Flowers creamy-white to deep orange-yellow. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens usually 3, usually all 2-thecous. Female flowers solitary or rarely racemose; ovary smooth; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit spherical, ellipsoid or oblong, red when mature. Style 1.

Worldwide: 30 species in tropical and South Africa, one extending to Malesia

Mozambique: 9 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
adoensis (A. Rich.) Cogn.	N,Z,T,MS,GI	Description, Image
barteri (Hook. f.) Keay	MS	Description, Image
fernandesiana C. Jeffrey	N,Z
grandiflora Cogn.	MS
grandis (L.) Voigt	M
rehmannii Cogn.	GI,M	Description, Image
schliebenii Harms	N
senensis (Klotzsch) Cogn.	T,MS
subglabra C. Jeffrey	N

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