Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Cucumis melo
Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Cucumis melo L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1011 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat ... "
Palmer, E. (1883), On plants used by the natives of North Queensland, Flinders and Mitchell Rivers, for Food, Medicine, etc. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 17: 96 BHL [secondary reference]
Cogniaux , C.A. & Harms, H. in Engler, H.G.A. (1924), Das Pflanzenreich: 120 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1187 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Cucumis chate Hasselq. ex L. legitimate by Palmer, E. (1883), On plants used by the natives of North Queensland, Flinders and Mitchell Rivers, for Food, Medicine, etc. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 17: 96
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 307, 309 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Cucumis trigonus Roxb. legitimate
Jeffrey, C. (1980), Further notes on Cucurbitaceae V. The Cucurbitaceae of the India Subcontinent. Kew Bulletin 34(4): 793 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Cucumis foliorum angulis rotundatis pomis torulosis L., Hort. Cliff.: 451(1738)!."
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 625 [secondary reference]
common name: Smooth Cucumber [n/a] common name: Ulcardo Melon [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 108 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Cucumis chate Hasselq. ex L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naudin legitimate
Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 189-190 [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Subspecific rank not recognised in SA.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 155 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 247-249, Fig. 70C [secondary reference]
common name: Ulcardo Melon [n/a]
Kirkbride, J.H. (1993), Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): 79-82 [secondary reference]
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 84, Fig. 16 [secondary reference]
Schaefer, H. (2007), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) must include Cucumella, Dicoelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce: a recircumscription based on nuclear and plastid DNA data. Blumea 52: 167 [secondary reference]
Nesom, G.L. (2011), Toward consistency of taxonomic rank in wild/domesticated Cucurbitaceae. Phytoneuron 13: 13 [secondary reference]
Telford, I.R.H., Sebastian, P., Bruhl, J.J. & Renner, S.S. (2011), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and Eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 379, figs. 2, 3 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Cucumis pubescens T.Mitch. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis jucunda F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis jucundus F.Muell. legitimate
Telford, I.R.H., Sebastian, P., Bruhl, J.J. & Renner, S.S. (2011), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and Eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 379 [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis picrocarpus F.Muell. legitimate by Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 189-190
[pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis picrocarpus F.Muell. legitimate by Kirkbride, J.H. (1993), Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): 79-82
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis melo L. var. melo legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis chate Hasselq. ex L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis acidus Jacq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis pubescens Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis trigonus Roxb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis pubescens T.Mitch. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naudin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis jucunda F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis jucundus F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo var. culta Kurz orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo var. cultus Kurz legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Greb. isonym taxonomic synonym: Cucumis chaete I.Telford orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. (Manfred D.Davidson 47) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. (Longreach I.R.Telford 11472) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. Manfred (D.Davidson 47) Qld Herbarium [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. Longreach (I.R.Telford 11472) Qld Herbarium [n/a]
  • APC Comment: Treated as Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo in WA.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis picrocarpus F.Muell. legitimate by Kirkbride, J.H. (1993), Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): 79-82
Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014. Nuytsia 25: 19 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo legitimate
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