Roemer, J.J. in Roemer, M.J. (1846), Peponiferarum pars prima. Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis Synopses Monographicae 2: 47 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1188 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. legitimate

Jeffrey, C. (1971), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 37: t. 3662 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 202 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R. & Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 231-232, Fig. 270F-H [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bryonia scabrella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melothria celebica var. villosior Cogn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Melothria argentea Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 156 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis maderaspatanus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 23 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 445 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 252, Fig. 71D [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 303 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 96 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 445 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 2659 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 142 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Melothria argentea Domin 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

Telford, I.R.H., Sebastian, P., Bruhl, J.J. & Renner, S.S. (2011), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and Eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 388 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Cucumis variabilis P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

Telford, I.R.H., Sebastian, P., Bruhl, J.J. & Renner, S.S. (2011), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and Eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 385 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

Telford, I.R.H., Sebastian, P., Bruhl, J.J. & Renner, S.S. (2011), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and Eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 385 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

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 Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

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 Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 252, Fig. 71D

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 Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 183-184, Fig. 40, Map 202

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 252, Fig. 71D

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 445

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford legitimate by Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 445

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