Coccinia
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Description
Herbaceous or (sub)woody perennial climbers, early glabrescent;
Leaves:
Flowers white (or creamy or orange, not in Malesia), petals fused into corolla-tube.
Fruit ripening red, berry-like, ellipsoid (elsewhere globose), moderate of size, pericarp thin.
Seeds numerous, (ovate-)elliptic, compressed, margin distinct, edge entire.