8599.000 Cucumis L.

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.

Cucumis zeyheri

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
anguria L. var. anguria T,MSDescription, Image
hirsutus Sond.N,Z,MS,MDescription, Image
melo L.MS,MImage
metuliferus NaudinN,Z,T,MS,GI,MDescription, Image
myriocarpus Naudin subsp. myriocarpus GI,M
zeyheri Sond.MDescription, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Cucumis
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Flora of Malawi: Cucumis
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Cucumis
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cucumis

External websites:

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Flora 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

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Cucumis.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1443, retrieved 28 March 2023

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