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Cucumis

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|image_caption = Cantaloupe melon

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|taxon = Cucumis

|authority = L.

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|synonyms = *Cucumella Chiov.

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Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (Cucumis sativus), true melons (Cucumis melo, including cantaloupe and honeydew), the horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), and the West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria).

30 species occur in Africa, and 25 occur in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia.Sebastian et al. (2010); Telford et al. (2011) However, Cucumis myriocarpus was introduced to Australia from Sub-Saharan Africa, and is regarded as an invasive species.{{cite web | title=Paddy Melon picking at Hamelin | website=Bush Heritage Australia | date=30 November 2020 | url=https://www.bushheritage.org.au/blog/learning-more-about-camel-melons|first=Richard| last=McLellan | access-date=31 July 2021}}{{cite web | title=Summer weeds | website=Agriculture and Food |publisher= Western Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development| date=24 August 2020 | url=https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/postharvest/summer-weeds?page=0%2C2 | access-date=31 July 2021}}

Species

{{As of|2022|October}}, Plants of the World Online accepted 61 species:{{cite web |title=Cucumis L.. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30023062-2 |access-date=2022-10-01 }}

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See also

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References

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Further reading

  • Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of Cucumis and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 94(7): 1256–1266.
  • {{cite journal| last1 = Renner, S. S.| first1 = Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A.| title = Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology| volume = 7| year = 2007| pages = 58–69| doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-7-58| pmid = 17425784| last2 = Schaefer| first2 = H| last3 = Kocyan| first3 = A| issue = 1| pmc=3225884| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2007BMCEE...7...58R}}
  • Sebastian, P. M., H. Schaefer, I. R. H. Telford, and S. S. Renner. 2010. Cucumber and melon have their wild progenitors in India, and the sister species of Cucumis melo is from Australia" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(32) 14269–14273 [http://www.pnas.org/content/107/32/14269.full.pdf (online)]
  • Telford, I. R. H., P. M. Sebastian, J. J. Bruhl, and S. S. Renner. 2011. Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and the sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 376-389 [http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1600/036364411X569561?journalCode=sbot (online)]
  • {{cite journal| last1 = Zhuang| first1 = Fei-Yun| title = Taxonomic Relationships of A Rare Cucumis Species (C. hystrix Chakr.) and Its Interspecific Hybrid with Cucumber| journal = HortScience| volume = 41| number = 3| year = 2006| pages = 571–574| last2 = Chen| first2 = Jin-Feng| last3 = Staub| first3 = Jack E.| last4 = Qian| first4 = Chun-Tao| doi = 10.21273/HORTSCI.41.3.571| doi-access = free}}

External links

  • [http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Cucumis.html Multilingual taxonomic information at the University of Melbourne]

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Category:Cucurbitaceae genera

Category:Benincaseae

Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus