{{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)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/NameDetails.aspx?nameid=40011032 |title=''Cocculus'' DC. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |accessdate=2009-12-07}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4; see text | subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331500-2 ''Cocculus'' DC.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 21 January 2024.</ref> | synonyms = ''Holopeira'' {{small|Miers (1851)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Cocculus''''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɒ|k|juː|l|ə|s}}<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book'', 1995:606–607</ref> is a genus of four species of woody vines and shrubs, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia.<ref name = powo/>
==Species== Four species are accepted:<ref name = powo/> *''Cocculus hirsutus'' <small>(L.) Diels<!--1910--></small> – tropical Africa east to India and Nepal *''Cocculus madagascariensis'' {{small|Diels}} – Madagascar *''Cocculus prainianus'' {{small|(Diels) A.Pramanik & Thoth.}} – Nagaland and Nicobar Islands *''Cocculus taiwanianus'' {{small|S.S.Ying}} – Taiwan
===Formerly placed here=== *''Jateorhiza palmata'' <small>(Lam.) Miers</small> (as ''C. palmatus'' <small>(Lam.) DC.</small>) *''Nephroia carolina'' <small>(L.) L.Lian & Wei Wang</small> (as ''C. carolinus'' {{small|(L.) DC.}}) *''Nephroia diversifolia'' <small>(DC.) L.Lian & Wei Wang</small> (as ''C. diversifolius'' {{small|DC.}}) *''Nephroia orbiculata'' <small>(L.) L.Lian & Wei Wang</small> (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'' <small>(Lam.) Merr.</small> (as ''C. incanus'' <small>Colebr.</small>) *''Sinomenium acutum'' <small>(Thunb.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson</small> (as ''C. acutus'' {{small|(Thunb.) Makino}}, ''C. diversifolius'' <small>Miq.</small>, and ''C. heterophyllus'' {{small|Hemsl. & E.H.Wilson}}) *''Tinospora cordifolia'' <small>(Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson</small> (as ''C. cordifolius'' <small>(Willd.) DC.</small>)<ref name="GRINSpecies">{{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 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commonscat-inline|Cocculus|''Cocculus''}} {{Wikispecies-inline|Cocculus|''Cocculus''}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060910152118/http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/frame/coca.htm ''Cocculus carolinus'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu]
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Category:Cocculus Category:Menispermaceae genera Category:Paleotropical flora
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