Coccinia grandis (L.)Voight
Synonym
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Coccinia grandis var. wightiana (M.Roem.)
Greb.
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Family
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Cucurbitaceae
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Local name
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English - Ivy
gourd
Malayalam - Kovakka
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Flowering and fruiting period
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December-April
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Distribution
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Peninsular India and
Sri Lanka
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Dry deciduous
forests and wastelands, also cultivated
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Uses
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Fruits and leaves
are used as vegetable
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Key
botanical characters :
Extensive vine; tendrils simple. Leaves 3-7 x 3-5 cm,
palmately 3-5-lobed or angled, broadly ovate to orbicular in outline, Flowers
axillary, solitary. Male flower: calyx tube 4-5 mm long, campanulate, lobes
5, subulate; corolla white, campanulate, villous; stamens 3,
inserted below the calyx-tube, filaments connate, anthers flexouse;
pistillode absent. Female flowers: calyx-tube campanulate; corolla white;
ovary oblong, glandular pubescent; ovules many, horizontal;
style slender; stigma 3-partite, densely papillose. Fruit ovoid-oblong; pulp red. Seeds oblong, compressed.
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