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[ Cucumeropsis ] [ Cucumis ] [ Cucurbita ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cucumis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cucumis

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Cucurbitanae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 4. 1994.       Ordo  Cucurbitales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.       Subordo  Cucurbitineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 190. Mai 1898.       Familia  Cucurbitaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 393. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Cucumbers, Gourds, Watermelon       Subfamilia  Cucumidoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 756, 1092, 1129. Jun 1835.       Tribus  Cucumereae Endl. ex M. Roem. pub. Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 6. Dec 1846.       Subtribus  Cucumerinae E.G.O. Müll. & Pax in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 5: 10, 22. Jun 1889.       Genus  Cucumis L. pub. (1753) common name: melon

Named members of the Genus Cucumis

1	Species  anguria L.
	2    Varietas  anguria common name: West Indian gherkin 3    Varietas  longaculeatus J.H. Kirkbride common name: West Indian gherkin
4	Species  colocynthis L. syn. Citrullus colocynthis
5	Species  dipsaceus C.G. Ehrenb. ex Spach common name: hedgehog gourd
6	Species  ficifolius A. Rich. common name: cucumis
7	Species  melo L. common name: Chinese cucumber
	8    Varietas  dudaim (L.) Naud. syn. Cucumis melo
9	Species  metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naud. common name: African horned cucumber
10	Species  myriocarpus E. Mey. ex Naud. common name: gooseberry gourd
11	Species  prophetarum L. common name: cucumis
12	Species  sativus L. common name: garden cucumber

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.