Coccinia grandis(L.) Voigt

ivy gourd

WFO wfo-0000612919 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Coccinia grandis, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205353187
Coccinia grandis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202847288
Coccinia grandis, photographed by 黃美滿
fig. c 黃美滿, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200872749
Coccinia grandis, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. d Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197975965
Coccinia grandis, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. e Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197734417
Coccinia grandis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184278033
Coccinia grandis, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184830134
Coccinia grandis, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184841510

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Native range 50 botanical countries

Regions where Coccinia grandis is native: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya BeninCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDjiboutiDR CongoEritreaEthiopiaGambiaGhanaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastKenyaMaliMauritaniaNigerNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanSaudi ArabiaYemenAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Laccadive Is.South China Sea
Native distribution of Coccinia grandis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Benin BEN AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Djibouti DJI
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laccadive Is. LDV
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
South China Sea SCS
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Saudi Arabia SAU
Yemen YEM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 326 in flower of 436 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Coccinia grandis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 326 of 436 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 26 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bryonia acerifolia D.Dietr.
  • Bryonia alceifolia Willd.
  • Bryonia barbata Buch.-Ham. ex Cogn.
  • Bryonia grandis L.
  • Bryonia moimoi Ser.
  • Bryonia sinuosa Wall.
  • Cephalandra grandis Kurz
  • Cephalandra indica Naudin
  • Cephalandra moghadd (Asch.) Broun & R.E.Massey
  • Cephalandra schimperi Naudin
  • Coccinia grandis var. wightiana (M.Roem.) Greb.
  • Coccinia helenae Buscal. & Muschl.
  • Coccinia indica Wight & Arn.
  • Coccinia loureiroana M.Roem.
  • Coccinia moghadd (Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.) Asch.
  • Coccinia moimoi M.Roem.
  • Coccinia palmatisecta Kotschy
  • Coccinia schimperi Naudin
  • Coccinia wightiana M.Roem.
  • Cucumis pavel Kostel.
  • Cucurbita dioica Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Cucurbita schimperiana Hochst. ex Cogn.
  • Luffa moghadd (Forssk.) Peterm.
  • Momordica bicolor Blume

and 2 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.