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Cucumis

The genus Cucumis is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cucumis

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Cucumis aculeatus Cogn. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis aetheocarpus (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis africanus L.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis anguria L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis baladensis Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis bryoniifolius (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis canoxyi Thulin & Al-Gifri Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis carolinus J.H.Kirkbr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis cinereus (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis clavipetiolatus (J.H.Kirkbr.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis debilis W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. ex Spach Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis engleri (Gilg) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis ficifolius A.Rich. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis globosus C.Jeffrey Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis gracilis (Kurz) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hastatus Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis heptadactylus Naudin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hirsutus Sond. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis humofructus Stent Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hystrix Chakrav. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis indicus Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis insignis C.Jeffrey Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis javanicus (Miq.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis jeffreyanus Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kalahariensis A.Meeuse Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kelleri (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kirkbridei Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis leiospermus (Wight & Arn.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis meeusei C.Jeffrey Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis melo L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis messorius (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis metulifer E. Mey. ex Naudin Accepted M TRO
Cucumis metuliferus E.Mey. ex Naudin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis prolatior J.H.Kirkbr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis prophetarum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis pubituberculatus Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis pustulatus Naudin ex Hook.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis quintanilhae R.Fern. & A.Fern. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis reticulatus (A.Fern. & R.Fern.) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis rigidus E.Mey. ex Sond. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis ritchiei (C.B.Clarke) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted L WCSP (in review)
Cucumis rostratus J.H.Kirkbr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sacleuxii Paill. & Bois Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sagittatus Wawra & Peyr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sativus L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis silentvalleyi (Manilal, T.Sabu & P.Mathew) Ghebret. & Thulin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis thulinianus J.H.Kirkbr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Cucumis zeyheri Sond. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 254 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cucumis. Of these 50 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 257 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cucumis. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 254 species names for the genus Cucumis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 50 19.7%
Synonym 164 64.6%
Unplaced 5 2.0%
Unassessed 35 13.8%

All names

The status of the 511 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cucumis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 52 10.2%
Synonym 417 81.6%
Unplaced 5 1.0%
Unassessed 37 7.2%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 254 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cucumis, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 49 163 0 0 212 83.5%
Low confidence 1 1 5 35 42 16.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cucumis, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 25 0 18 0 44 17.3%
WCSP (in review) 49 139 5 17 0 210 82.7%