| 词条 | Coccinia grandiflora |
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|image = Coccinia grandiflora @ Amani, TNZ.JPG |genus = Coccinia |species = grandiflora |authority = Cogn. }} Coccinia grandiflora is an East African species of Coccinia which was first described in 1895 by Alfred Cogniaux. DescriptionPerennial, dioecious climber. Shoot length up to 20 m and up to 6 cm in diameter. Leaves are alternate with 2.5–13 cm long petiole, lamina 12–20 × 11–20 cm, profoundly 5-lobate, more or less auriculate. Upper lamina glabrous with clear to whitish pustules. Lower lamina paler than upper lamina, glabrous, often with small dark glands along the main nerves. Fresh shoots, lower sides of petioles and leaves are glabrous, sometimes with soft white hairs. Tendrils unequally bifid. Probracts up to 5 mm long. Flowers in each sex usually solitary, sometimes in few-flowered racemes. Receptacle pale green, glabrous. Calyx teeth 4–13 mm long, lineal, narrowly lanceolate to triangulate, tip subulate to subacute. Corolla 4–6.5 cm long, apricot, salmon, yellowish-buff to yellow, lobes 2–4.7 cm. Stamens 3, reduced to staminodia in female flowers. Anthers in male flowers sinuate, in a globose head. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous. Style columnar, yellowish to buff. Stigmas 2-lobed, yellow. Fruits cylindrical, up to 30 cm long and 2–4 cm in diameter, glabrous, when unripe green, ripe (orange-)red. Seeds 4.5 × 2.5 × 1–1.2 mm (L/W/H), symmetrically obovate, face flatly lenticular. Chromosomes 2n = 24. DistributionSE Kenya, NE to S Tanzania, Malawi, W Mocambique, E Zimbabwe. EcologyLowland rainforest communities, gallery forests, humid woodlands that degraded from rainforest. Flowering around the year. EtymologyThe epithet refers to the large flowers, however, similarly large flowers are also found in the closely related[1] Coccinia schliebenii. Systematics and evolutionAccording to molecular analyses,[1] Coccinia grandiflora is closely related to Coccinia schliebenii. Both species share large flowers and cylindrical fruits and occur in rainforests and humid woodland communities. Their common ancestor likely evolved from a species occurring in drier woodlands. Literature
References1. ^1 {{Cite journal | last1 = Holstein | first1 = N. | last2= Renner | first2 = Susanne S. | title = A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae) | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-11-28 | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 11 | pages = 28 | year = 2011}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q15532499}} 1 : Coccinia |
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