identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03F9EB418E47AF2AF34EFE7AFBB3CF80.text	03F9EB418E47AF2AF34EFE7AFBB3CF80.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cucumis	<div><p>Genus Cucumis L.</p> <p>Species Plantarum ed. 1: 1011 (1753); Genera Plantarum ed. 5: 442 (1754). — J. H. Kirkbride, Biosystematic Monograph of the Genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): 19 (1993). — Type: Cucumis sativus L. (lecto-, designated by Britton &amp; Wilson 1925: 264). Melo Mill., The Gardeners Dictionary, abridged ed. 4,</p> <p>vol. 2: without pagination (1754). — Type: Cucumis</p> <p>melo L. (lecto-, designated by Swart 1960, see also</p> <p>Swart 1979).</p> <p>DESCRIPTION</p> <p>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).</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION</p> <p>About 35 species in the Old World, mostly Africa, of which two species widely cultivated.</p> <p>KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CUCUMIS L. IN SOUTH- EAST ASIA</p> <p>1. Apex of leaf blade subacute or rounded. Ovary densely fine-hairy. Fruit soft hairy, glabrescent [x = 12, subgenus Melo, comprising the majority of the species; Africa]..... C. melo</p> <p>— Apex of leaf blade acute. Ovary glabrous or with coarse setose hairs. Fruit glabrous, aculeate or tubercled [x = 7, subgenus Cucumis, Asian species]...................................... 2</p> <p>2. Plant delicate, stem c. 1 mm diameter. Pedicel of male flower (15-) 20 mm long. Pedicel of female flower c. 35 mm long (in immature fruit). Ovary glabrous, smooth or sparsely aculeate.......................................................................................................... C. debilis</p> <p>— Plant stouter, stem (1-) 2-4 mm diameter. Pedicel of male flower 2-10 mm long. Pedicel of female flower 1-20(-30) mm long. Ovary (glabrous or) hairy or setose................... 3</p> <p>3. Ovary strigose. Fruit aculeate-tubercled. Fruit apex acute. Plant growing wild... C. hystrix</p> <p>— Ovary (glabrous or) fine-hairy. Fruit glabrous or short-aculeate. Fruit apex blunt. Culti- vated or escaped............................................................................................ C. sativus</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F9EB418E47AF2AF34EFE7AFBB3CF80	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	De Wilde, Willem J. J. O.;Duyfjes, Brigitta E. E.	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
