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 Colocynthis citrullus

Cucurbitaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Cucurbitales(ordo)
Cucurbitaceae(fam.)
citrullus(sp.)

Colocynthis citrullus (L.) Kuntze

, legitimate

, scientific

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1

:

256

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Cucurbita citrullus L.

legitimate

Hartley, W. (1953), Standardized Plant Names: a revised list of standard common names for the more important Australian grasses, other pasture plants, and weeds.

Bulletin (CSIRO)

:

23

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

108

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

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

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

173

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

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

Flora of Victoria

:

382

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2019), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Recorded by W.Hartley, Bull. (CSIRO) 272: 23 (1953) and listed in synonymy of Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai or Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus by various authors. Citrullus lanatus and C. lanatus var. lanatus are now considered to have been misapplied to Citrullus amarus Schrad. in Australia.