Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Bitter Melon

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, common

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

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~ 544, Fig. 237

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.

legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

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806

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.

legitimate

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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~ 342, Fig. 347

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

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~ 624-625

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Australia

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~ 173, 175, Map 193

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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~ 113-115, Fig. 14C

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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443

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus

legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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~ 247, Fig. 70B

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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~ 382, Fig. 79c-d

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

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95

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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443

[common name]

common name of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus

legitimate