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.

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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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