Cucurbiteae

Muskmelon Cucumis melo, copyright Wilfredor.

Belongs within: Cucurbitales.

The Cucurbiteae are a group of annual herbs or woody lianas that often produce large, showy flowers; several species are widely grown for their edible fruit.

<==Cucurbiteae [Cucurbitoideae]
    |  i. s.: Cucurbita CD07
    |           |--C. aurantia C55
    |           |--C. digitata BT72
    |           |--C. ficifolia RS99
    |           |--C. foetidissima H93
    |           |--C. maxima C55
    |           |--C. melopepo C55
    |           |--C. moschata M99
    |           |--C. ovifera C55
    |           |--C. palmata H93
    |           |--C. pepo Linnaeus 1753 CD07
    |           `--C. verrucosa C55
    `--Cucumerinae BR65
         |--Ecballium elaterium [=Momordica elaterium] BR65
         |--Momordica BR65
         |    |--M. balsamina BR65
         |    |--M. charantia SR07
         |    |    |--M. c. var. charantia SR07
         |    |    `--M. c. var. muricata SR07
         |    |--M. dioica P03
         |    `--M. senegalensis C55
         |--Citrullus Forskål 1775 (nom. cons. prop.) [incl. Anguria Miller 1754, Colocynthis Ludw. 1757] BR65
         |    |--C. colocynthis BR65
         |    |--C. lanatus M99 [=C. colocynthis var. lanatus H93]
         |    |    |--C. l. var. lanatus M99
         |    |    |--C. l. var. caffer M99
         |    |    `--C. l. var. vulgaris K10
         |    |--C. rehmii CV06
         |    `--C. vulgaris BR65
         `--Cucumis WM09
              |--C. anguria H90
              |--C. callosus PP07
              |--C. chate [incl. C. jucundus, C. picrocarpus, C. trigonus (preoc.)] BR65
              |--C. citrullus [=Cucurbita citrullus] C55
              |--C. melo M99
              |    |  i. s.: C. m. var. cantalupensis M99
              |    |         C. m. var. dudaim H93
              |    |         C. m. var. momordica PP07
              |    |         C. m. var. reticulatus BR65
              |    |         C. m. var. saccharinus BR65
              |    |--C. m. ssp. melo H90
              |    `--C. m. ssp. agrestis H90
              |--C. metulifera H90
              |--C. myriocarpus BR65
              |--C. prophetarum PP07
              |--C. sativa WM09
              `--C. zeyheri H90

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BT72] Baker, E. W., & D. M. Tuttle. 1972. New species and further notes on the Tetranychoidea mostly from the southwestern United States (Acarina: Tetranychidae and Tenuipalpidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 116: 1–37.

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[CD07] Cantino, P. D., J. A. Doyle, S. W. Graham, W. S. Judd, R. G. Olmstead, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis & M. J. Donoghue. 2007. Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta. Taxon 56 (3): E1–E44.

[CV06] Craven, P., & P. Vorster. 2006. Patterns of plant diversity and endemism in Namibia. Bothalia 36 (2): 175–189.

[H90] Harden, G. J. (ed.) 1990. Flora of New South Wales vol. 1. New South Wales University Press.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[K10] Keighery, G. 2010. The naturalised vascular plants of the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 78 (1): 299–311.

[M99] Matthews, M. 1999. Heliothine Moths of Australia: A guide to bollworms and related noctuid groups. CSIRO Publishing.

[PP07] Pandey, R. P., & P. M. Padhye. 2007. Studies on phytodiversity of Arid Machia Safari Park-Kailana in Jodhpur (Rajasthan). Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 15–78.

[P03] Paul, T. K. 2003. Botanical observations on the Purulia pumped storage hydropower project area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 121–142.

[RS99] Rossman, A. Y., G. J. Samuels, C. T. Rogerson & R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42: 1–248.

[SR07] Sankar, R. V., K. Ravikumar, N. M. Ganesh Babu & D. K. Ved. 2007. Botany of Anapady MPCA, Palghat district, Kerala with special emphasis on species of conservation concern. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 165–172.

[WM09] Wang, H., M. J. Moore, P. S. Soltis, C. D. Bell, S. F. Brockington, R. Alexandre, C. C. Davis, M. Latvis, S. R. Manchester & D. E. Soltis. 2009. Rosid radiation and the rapid rise of angiosperm-dominated forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106 (10): 3853–3858.