Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1011 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 442 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, T.L. (1848), Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia: 110 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 317 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 76 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 174 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 221 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Wilson, Percy (31 August 1925), Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 6(2): 264 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cucumis sativus L.

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 545 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of the cucumber."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 807 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of the cucumber."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 200 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 291 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 340-342 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 424 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 108 [secondary reference]

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

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 188-192 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 110 [secondary reference]

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Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 445-446 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 247 [secondary reference]

Kirkbride, J.H. (1993), Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): - [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 130 [secondary reference]

Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 381 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 445-446 [secondary reference]

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Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 140 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mukia Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Muckia F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 235 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Mukia Arn. legitimate

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