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8599.000 Cucumis
Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial, monoecious or dioecious, herbs with climbing or prostrate stems. Leaves simple. Tendrils simple at each node (except C. humifructus which has 2-8 at each node). Male flowers solitary or in few-flowered fascicles; female flowers solitary. Disk obvious, free from the receptacle-tube. Ovary smooth or bearing setae, spines or tubercles. Stamens 3, two 2-thecous, one 1-thecous. Worldwide: 32 species in the Old World tropics Mozambique: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| anguria L. var. anguria | T,MS | Description, Image |
| hirsutus Sond. | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |
| melo L. | MS,M | Image |
| metuliferus Naudin | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| myriocarpus Naudin subsp. myriocarpus | GI,M | |
| zeyheri Sond. | M | Description, Image |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cucumis
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): CucumisFlora Zambesiaca web site: Cucumis
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cucumis
Wikipedia: Cucumis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cucumis
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Cucumis
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