Coccinia grandiflora

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cucurbitales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Cucurbitales

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Benincaseae
Genus: Coccinia
Species: Coccinia grandiflora Cogn., Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1894: 34 1894.

Coccinia grandiflora Cogn., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21: 211 (1895).

Type locality: Tanzania, Tanga, Mlalo, dry hill range

Holotype: B: C.H.E.W. Holst 506a (destroyed)

Type locality: Tanzania, Tanga, Usambara, near Amani

Neotype: BR: [H.J.P.?] Winkler 3611 (designated by Holstein (2015: 75))

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Africa Regional: Eastern Africa SE-Kenya, E-Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, E-Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Gilg, E. 1905: Cucurbitaceae africanae II. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 34: 343–367.
Holstein, N. 2015: Monograph of Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae). in: PhytoKeys 54: 1–166. Full text: [1]

Hassler, M. 2019. Coccinia grandiflora. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 22. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Coccinia grandiflora. Published online. Accessed: Dec 22 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Coccinia grandiflora in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 22. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Coccinia grandiflora. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 21 Dec 2019.

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