Taxon: Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• ivy gourd   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kanduri   (Source: Hamdard 38:98. 1995)
  
• kundree   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kundur   (Source: Hamdard 38:98. 1995)
  
• little gourd   (Source: Cucurbits 194. 1998)
  
• pepasan   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pepino cimarrón   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Tindola   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• tindora   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• tindori   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit; vegetable   (leaves fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazed by all stock fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Hamdard 38:98. 1995; Econ Bot 53:108. 1999)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Mali; Nigeria; Senegal
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

Other:

• widely cultivated elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun. (F Cameroun)
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. (L Mali)
• Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr) 1:575.
• Chakravarty, H. L. 1982. Cucurbitaceae. In: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India. (Fasc F India) 11:24–26.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Decker-Walters, D. S. 1999. Cucurbit, Sanskrit, and the Indo-Aryas. Econ. Bot. 53:108.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:98.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale). (F Afr Centr)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Peter, K. V. et al. in N. M. Nayar & T. A. More, eds. 1998. Cucurbits. 194.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:150.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Coccinia grandis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Coccinia grandis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Coccinia cordifolia auct.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Coccinia indica Wight & Arn.
  

Check other databases for Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?10974 (22 November 2009)

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