Cucumis

Cucumis
melon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Melothrieae
Subtribe: Cucumerinae
Genus: Cucumis
L.
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Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the Cucurbitaceae family which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and Cucumis anguria, the West Indian gherkin. Thirty species occur in Africa, 25 in India, Indochina, Southeast Asia, and Australia [1]

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References

  1. ^ Sebastian et al. (2010); Telford et al. (2011)

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