Cogniaux, C.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (1881), Cucurbitaceae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 623 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 15 [secondary reference]

Winnecke, C. (1886), Plants collected in Central Australia, between lat. 22° 30' and 28° S., and long. 136° 30' and 139° 30' E., by Ch. Winnecke, Esq., during his expedition in 1883. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 8: 12 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Plants collected in Capricornic Western Australia, by H.S. King. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 54 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 175 [secondary reference]

Cogniaux, C.A. in Engler, H.G.A. (1916), Das Pflanzenreich 66: 126 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 544, Fig. 236 D-F [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bryonia scabrella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1188-1189 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bryonia scabrella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 805, Fig. 1132, D-F [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bryonia scabrella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melothria muelleri Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• Etymology: "The specific name means 'of Madras.'"

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 309 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 261 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R. & Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 231 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. legitimate

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 112 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 252 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. legitimate

Schaefer, H. (2007), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) must include Cucumella, Dicoelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce: a recircumscription based on nuclear and plastid DNA data. Blumea 52: 167 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis variabilis P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 15

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis variabilis P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Plants collected in Capricornic Western Australia, by H.S. King. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 54

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis variabilis P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Cogniaux, C.A. in Engler, H.G.A. (1916), Das Pflanzenreich 66: 126

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 15

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Winnecke, C. (1886), Plants collected in Central Australia, between lat. 22° 30' and 28° S., and long. 136° 30' and 139° 30' E., by Ch. Winnecke, Esq., during his expedition in 1883. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 8: 12

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Cogniaux, C.A. in Engler, H.G.A. (1916), Das Pflanzenreich 66: 126

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 15

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Winnecke, C. (1886), Plants collected in Central Australia, between lat. 22° 30' and 28° S., and long. 136° 30' and 139° 30' E., by Ch. Winnecke, Esq., during his expedition in 1883. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 8: 12

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1887), Plants collected in Capricornic Western Australia, by H.S. King. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 54

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Cogniaux, C.A. in Engler, H.G.A. (1916), Das Pflanzenreich 66: 126

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