''Cocculus'' is a genus of 11 species of woody

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s and shrubs, native to warm

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regions of North America, Asia and Africa. The common name moonseed is also used for the closely related genus '' Menispermum''.

Selected species

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Cocculus carolinus ''Cocculus carolinus'', commonly called the Carolina coralbead, or snailseed, or Margil's Vine, is a perennial vine of the moonseed family (Cocculus). It is native to North America, where it is found in Mexico and in several states in the United ...

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– red-berried moonseed or Carolina moonseed (

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Cocculus diversifolius ''Cocculus diversifolius'' is a vine with the common name sarsaparilla or correjuela. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and much of Mexico as far south as Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and So ...

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, southern

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Cocculus hirsutus ''Cocculus hirsutus'' is a tropical, invasive creeper with the common name broom creeper or ''Patalgarudi'' (Sanskrit). It is native to India, Pakistan, and tropical Africa. It is a vine climbing up to , with white to yellowish flowers and dark p ...

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Cocculus laurifolius ''Cocculus laurifolius'', the laurel-leaved snail tree, is a medium-sized, shrubby evergreen tree of the genus ''Cocculus''. It is native to the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains, China, Taiwan and Japan, where it commonly grows to a height of ...

'' DC. – laurel-leaved snail tree (

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east to Japan) *''

Cocculus orbiculatus ''Cocculus orbiculatus'', the queen coralbead, is a species of woody vine A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas ...

'' (L.) DC. – queen coralbead (India east to

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Cocculus sarmentosus ''Cocculus'' is a genus of 11 species of woody vines and shrubs, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of North America, Asia and Africa. The common name moonseed is also used for the closely related genus ''Menispermum''. Selected spe ...

'' ( Lour.) Diels (

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*'' Jateorhiza palmata'' (Lam.) Miers (as ''C. palmatus'' (Lam.) DC.) *''

Pericampylus glaucus ''Pericampylus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. Its native range is Tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the ...

'' (Lam.) Merr. (as ''C. incanus'' Colebr.) *'' Sinomenium acutum'' (Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson (as ''C. diversifolius'' Miq.) *''

Tinospora cordifolia ''Tinospora cordifolia'' (common names gurjo, heart-leaved moonseed, guduchi or giloy) is a herbaceous vine of the family Menispermaceae indigenous to tropical regions of the Indian subcontinent. It has been used in Ayurveda to treat various di ...

'' (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson (as ''C. cordifolius'' (Willd.) DC.)

References

External links

''Cocculus carolinus'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
Menispermaceae genera {{Ranunculales-stub