Ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis)

Kemarungan or ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis) is a species of plant in the Cucurbitaceae, growing climbing with single tendrils, cylindrical stems, green, growing in forests, agricultural land, roadsides and along watercourses.

C. grandis has leaves with long stalks, 5 lobes, 15 cm long, 15 cm wide, radial pulse base, jagged margins, upper surface green and glabrous.

The fruit is eaten raw or cooked into subs and curries. Fried leaves for vegetables.





The female and male flowers appear in the axils of the leaves with 3 stamens. The fruit is long oval, 6 cm long, 3 cm wide, green or red and juicy. The fruit is eaten raw or cooked into subs and curries. Fried leaves for vegetables.

Plants contain phytosterols, flavonoids, terpenoids, coccinosides, phenols, tannins, alkaloids, glycosides, cucurbitacin B, taraxerone, lupeol, saponins, cryptoxanthin.

The fruit is used to treat leprosy, fever, asthma, bronchitis, jaundice and treat diabetes. This fruit has mast cell stabilizing, antianaphylactic and antihistamine potential. The root is used to treat osteoarthritis and joint pain. A paste made from the leaves is applied to the skin to treat scabies.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Tribe: Benincaseae
Genus: Coccinia Wight & Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 347 (1834)
Species: Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt in Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.: 59 (1845)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bryonia grandis L. in Mant. Pl. 1: 126 (1767)
Cephalandra grandis (L.) Kurz in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 46: 103 (1877)
Cephalandra indica Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 5: 16 (1866)
Coccinia indica Wight & Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 347 (1834)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bryonia acerifolia D.Dietr. in Syn. Plant. 5: 367 (1852)
Bryonia alceifolia Willd. in Neue Schriften Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 4: 223 (1803)
Bryonia barbata Buch.-Ham. ex Cogn. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 580 (1881)
Bryonia moimoi Ser. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 3: 305 (1828)
Bryonia sinuosa Wall. in Numer. List: n.° 6716 (1832)
Cephalandra indica var. palmata C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 2: 621 (1879)
Cephalandra moghadd (Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.) Broun & R.L.Massey in Fl. Sudan: 105 (1929)
Cephalandra schimperi (Naudin) Naudin (1866)
Coccinia cordifolia var. alceifolia (Willd.) Cogn. (1881)
Coccinia cordifolia var. wightiana Cogn. (1881)
Coccinia grandis var. quinqueangularis Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(4): 673 (1856)
Coccinia grandis var. wightiana Greb. in R.Mansfeld, Verz. Landwirtsch. Gärtn. Kulturpfl., ed. 2, 2: 929 (1986)
Coccinia helenae Buscal. & Muschl. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 498 (1913)
Coccinia loureiroana M.Roem. in Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 93 (1846)
Coccinia moghadd (Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.) Asch. in G.Schweinfurth & auct. suc. (eds.), Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 267 (1867)
Coccinia moimoi (Ser.) M.Roem. (1846)
Coccinia palmatisecta Kotschy in Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1, 51: 360 (1865)
Coccinia schimperi Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 8: 366 (1857)
Coccinia wightiana M.Roem. (1846)
Cucumis pavel Kostel. in Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 2: 738 (1833)
Cucumis sativus var. arakis Forssk. in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 169 (1775)
Cucurbita dioica Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. (1834)
Cucurbita schimperiana Hochst. ex Cogn. (1881)
Luffa moghadd (Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.) Peterm. in Pflanzenreich: 437 (1845)
Momordica bicolor Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 928 (1826)
Momordica covel Dennst. in Schlüssel Hortus Malab.: 34 (1818)
Momordica monadelpha Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 708 (1832)
Physedra gracilis A.Chev. in Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. 1: 294 (1920)
Turia moghadd Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel. in Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 403 (1791)

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VERNACULAR NAME

Aceh: Timun tai tikus
Assam: Kunduli
Bengali: Telakucha, Kũdri, Toruni
Chinese (simplified): 红瓜
Chinese (traditional): 紅瓜
Danish: Skarlagenagurk
English: Ivy gourd, Scarlet gourd
French: Courge ecarlate
Gujarati: Tindora
Hindi: Kundru, Kundri, kunduru, Kanturi, Tendli, Bimb
Indonesian: Kemarungan, Papasan, Timun Tikus
Japanese: ヤサイカラスウリ
Java: Kemarongan
Kannada: Tonde, Tonde Kayi, Thonde balli, Tondikay
Khmer: Sloekbaas, Lök baahs
Konkani: Kundru, Tendli, Tendale
Lao: Tam ling, Tam nin
Maithli: Tikor
Malayalam: Kova, Koval, kovakkai, Kovakka
Malaysia: Pepasan, Papasan
Manipuri: Kwakthabi
Marathi: Tondli, Tendali, Bimba
Melayu: Pepasan, Papasan
Nepali: Gol Kaakree
Odia: Bana-kunudri, Ban-kundri, Bano kundri, Kundri
Punjabi: Kanduri
Russian: Кокциния крупная
Sanskrit: Bimbi, Bimbika, Bimbaphala, Tundika
Sinhala: Kowakka
Slovak: Kokcínia veľká
Tamil: Kovai
Telugu: Donda kaya, Donda kaaya, Tonda kaaya, Kaayi donda, Bimbika
Thai: ตำลึง
Tulu: Manoli
Urdu: Kundru, Tendli
USA: Rashmato
Uttar Pradesh: Kunaru
Vietnam: Dây bình bát, Bình bát dây, Dây bát, Bát dây, Bát bát, Mảnh bát

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