''Cocculus'' is a genus of 11 species of
woody vines and
shrub
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s, 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
''Menispermum'' (moonseed) is a small genus of deciduous climbing woody vines in the moonseed family (Menispermaceae). Plants in this genus have small dioecious flowers, and clusters of small grape-like drupes. The name, moonseed, comes from the ...
''.
Selected species
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Cocculus carolinus''
( L.) DC.
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– red-berried moonseed or Carolina moonseed (
southeastern United States)
*''
Cocculus diversifolius''
DC. – correhuela (southern
Texas, southern
Arizona and northern
Mexico)
*''
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 ...
''
(L.) Diels (tropical
Africa east to
India and
Nepal)
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Cocculus laurifolius''
DC. – laurel-leaved snail tree (
Himalayas east to
Japan
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)
*''
Cocculus orbiculatus''
(L.) DC. – queen coralbead (India east to
Java)
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Cocculus sarmentosus''
( Lour.) Diels (
Taiwan)
Formerly placed here
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Jateorhiza palmata
''Jateorhiza palmata'' (calumba) is a perennial climbing plant from East Africa. It contains isoquinoline alkaloids and is used mainly as a bitter tonic especially in cases of anorexia nervosa. It contains no tannins, hence it can be safely use ...
''
(Lam.) Miers (as ''C. palmatus''
(Lam.) DC.)
*''
Pericampylus glaucus''
(Lam.) Merr. (as ''C. incanus''
Colebr.)
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Sinomenium acutum
''Sinomenium'' is a genus of plant in family Menispermaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It contains only one known species, ''Sinomenium acutum'', native to China, northern India, Nepal, Japan, northern Thailand, and also Korea.
Fossil r ...
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(Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson (as ''C. diversifolius''
Miq.)
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Tinospora cordifolia''
(Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson (as ''C. cordifolius''
(Willd.) DC.)
References
External links
''Cocculus carolinus'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
Menispermaceae genera
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