Herbaria

Family

Cucurbitaceae

subfamily

Genus

Coccinia Wight & Arn.

Species

Coccinia grandis (L.)Voiget

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.)Voiget

citation

Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 59 (1845)

herbariaSynonyms

Bryonia grandis L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

TANE (Ge)

CAI (Ge)

CAIM (Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

TANE (Gebel Elba)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

TANE (1)

CAIM

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

TANE

CAI

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

TANE (1)

CAI (7)

Habitat

Desert Wadis

FlFrperiod

LifeForm

Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

scarlet gourd/ Ivy Gourd

herbariaUses

medicinal

Edible

GlobalDistribution

tropical Africa from Senegal to Somalia; Arabian Peninsula to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indo-China to Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

NE (Not Evaluated)

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

El Hadidi, M.N.& Fayed, A. 1994/95. Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt (EFE). Taeckholmia 15

Boulos, L. 2000. Flora of Egypt, vol.2. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Heneidak, S. 2008. TAxonomic Revision of wild species of Cucurbitaceae in Egypt