Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Cucumis melo Linnaeus 1753

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Cucumis flexuosus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1437. 1763.

"Habitat in India?" RCN: 7338.

Lectotype (Kirkbride, Biosyst. Monogr. Cucumis: 104. 1993): [icon] " Cucumeres longissimi " in Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. Pl. Univ. 2: 247, 248. 1651.

Current name: Cucumis melo L. (Cucurbitaceae).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), pp. 370-473 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 464, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Family
Cucurbitaceae
Genus
Cucumis
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Cucurbitales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
melo
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cucumis melo Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007