Coccinia

Accepted species 28 Documented here 7 Family Cucurbitaceae

Accepted species 28 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt 349 documented
Coccinia adoensis (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Cogn. 63 documented
Coccinia quinqueloba (Thunb.) Cogn. 29 documented
Coccinia rehmannii Cogn. 29 documented
Coccinia mackenii Naudin ex C.Huber 28 documented
Coccinia grandiflora Cogn. ex Engl. 7 documented
Coccinia hirtella Cogn. 6 documented
Coccinia barteri (Hook.f.) Keay 1 below the evidence gate
Coccinia mildbraedii Gilg & Harms 1 below the evidence gate
Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia heterophylla (Hook.f.) Holstein 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia intermedia Holstein 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia keayana R.Fernandes 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia lalambensis Penz. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia longicarpa Jongkind 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia longipetiolata Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia megarrhiza C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia microphylla Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia ogadensis Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia pwaniensis Holstein 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia racemiflora Keraudren 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia samburuensis Holstein 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia schliebenii Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia senensis (Klotzsch) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia sessilifolia (Sond.) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia subglabra C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia subsessiliflora Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Coccinia trilobata (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.