Taxon: Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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 ) – English
  
• little gourd   (Source: Cucurbits 194. 1998) – English
  
• Tindola   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• kundree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• tindora   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• tindori   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• pepasan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Malay
  
• pepino cimarrón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• scharlakansgurka   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• kanduri   (Source: Hamdard 38:98. 1995) – Urdu (Pakistan)
  
• kundur   (Source: Hamdard 38:98. 1995) – Urdu (Pakistan)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (leaves fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  
• Human food: 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: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• 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

• widely cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Chakravarty, H. L. 1982. Cucurbitaceae. Pp. 11:24–26 in: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of 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.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• 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)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Peter, K. V. et al. 1998. Improvement and cultivation: bitter gourd, snake gourd, pointed gourd, and ivy gourd. In: N. M. Nayar & T. A. More, eds., Cucurbits. 194.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. P. 8:150 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Coccinia grandis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Coccinia grandis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Coccinia grandis.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

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