Coccinia suburceolata Cogn., Symb. Antill. (Urban) 1: 450. 1900.

Holstein, Norbert, 2015, Monograph of Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae), PhytoKeys 54, pp. 1-166 : 133

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scientific name	Coccinia suburceolata Cogn., Symb. Antill. (Urban) 1: 450. 1900.
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Coccinia suburceolata Type: Haiti. Near Port-au-Prince, in Tête bois de pin, 1800 m, male, fl, Nov, L. Picarda 1498 (Holotype: BR! [BR0000009939141, digital image: JPS], isotypes: B, L, NY, S?).

Remarks.

This plant was found on Haiti and is therefore geographically far away from the natural distribution range of the genus Coccinia . According to the protologue, the tendrils are often trifid and the fruit is spherical and apple-sized, which does not fit to the morphospace of any Coccinia species. Urban (1921) put the specimen and thus species, amongst others, into a new genus: Penelopeia , which has been confirmed by Kocyan et al. (2007).

References

Kocyan, A, Zhang, L-B, Schaefer, H, Renner, SS, 2007. A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character evolution and classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 553 - 577, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.022

Urban, I, 1921. Sertum antillanum X. Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis 17: 6 - 11