taxonID	type	description	language	source
03F9EB418E47AF2AF34EFE7AFBB3CF80.taxon	description	vol. 2: without pagination (1754). — Type: Cucumis melo L. (lecto-, designated by Swart 1960, see also Swart 1979). DESCRIPTION Small or medium annual or perennial climbers (rarely suberect); monoecious (rarely dioecious); plant scabrous or setose, stem 1 - 4 mm diameter. Probract: absent. Tendrils: simple. Leaves: simple. Flowers: solitary or few-fascicled; pedicel short; corolla small- or mediumsized, yellow. Male flowers: receptacle-tube campanulate or turbinate, small; sepals small, mostly linear; petals united at their base, margin entire; stamens 3, free, inserted about halfway the receptacle-tube, filaments short, anthers two 2 - thecous, one 1 - thecous, thecae sinuate, 3 - plicate or S-shaped, connective considerably produced apically; disc (pistillode) large, gland-like, free from the tube. Female flowers: usually solitary; ovary hairy, hairs sometimes apical on small protuberances, ovules numerous, horizontal; perianth as in male flowers but somewhat larger, stigma cupular with finger-like projections; staminodes often present, small; disc surrounding the base of style, free from the tube. Fruit: a (large) fleshy berry, indehiscent, pubescent or glabrous, or with fleshy spines or tubercles, green, yellow or orange, rarely maturing underground (C. humifructus Stent, southern Africa). Seeds: numerous, flat, elliptic or oblong, pale, not sculptured, unmargined with acute edge, unwinged (or rarely winged).	en	De Wilde, Willem J. J. O., Duyfjes, Brigitta E. E. (2007): The wild species of Cucumis L. (Cucurbitaceae) in South-East Asia. Adansonia (3) 29 (2): 239-248, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5187443
03F9EB418E47AF2AF34EFE7AFBB3CF80.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION About 35 species in the Old World, mostly Africa, of which two species widely cultivated.	en	De Wilde, Willem J. J. O., Duyfjes, Brigitta E. E. (2007): The wild species of Cucumis L. (Cucurbitaceae) in South-East Asia. Adansonia (3) 29 (2): 239-248, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5187443
