Cocculus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{automatic taxobox

| image = Cocculus_hirsutus_Pune.jpg

| image_caption = Cocculus hirsutus

| taxon = Cocculus

| authority = DC. (1817)

| type_species = Cocculus villosus

| type_species_authority = DC. (1817){{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/NameDetails.aspx?nameid=40011032 |title=Cocculus DC. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |accessdate=2009-12-07}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4; see text

| subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331500-2 Cocculus DC.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 January 2024.

| synonyms = Holopeira {{small|Miers (1851)}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Cocculus {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɒ|k|juː|l|ə|s}}Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is a genus of four species of woody vines and shrubs, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia.

Species

Four species are accepted:

=Formerly placed here=

  • Jateorhiza palmata (Lam.) Miers (as C. palmatus (Lam.) DC.)
  • Nephroia carolina (L.) L.Lian & Wei Wang (as C. carolinus {{small|(L.) DC.}})
  • Nephroia diversifolia (DC.) L.Lian & Wei Wang (as C. diversifolius {{small|DC.}})
  • Nephroia orbiculata (L.) L.Lian & Wei Wang (as C. orbiculatus {{small|(L.) DC.}} and C. sarmentosus {{small|(Lour.) Diels}})
  • Pachygone laurifolia {{small|(DC.) L.Lian & Wei Wang}} (as C. laurifolius {{small|DC.}})
  • Pericampylus glaucus (Lam.) Merr. (as C. incanus Colebr.)
  • Sinomenium acutum (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson (as C. acutus {{small|(Thunb.) Makino}}, C. diversifolius Miq., and C. heterophyllus {{small|Hemsl. & E.H.Wilson}})
  • Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson (as C. cordifolius (Willd.) DC.){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2741 |title=GRIN Species Records of Cocculus |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |accessdate=2011-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120162813/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2741 |archive-date=2009-01-20 |url-status=dead }}

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