Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin , legitimate, scientific
Naudin, C.V. (1859), Essais d'une monographie des especes et des varietes du genre Cucumis. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique sér. 4, 11: 22 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Africa australi. Specimina vidimus in Herbario Hookeriano ... prope Somerset et secus flumen Fat River in regione capensi collecta (Burke, Bowler). Fortassis quoque in Arabia et Africa seprentrionali indigenus est."
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 318 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 533 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 221 [secondary reference]
common name: Gooseberry Cucumber [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 545, Fig. 238 [secondary reference]
common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 807, Fig. 1134 [secondary reference]
common name: Gooseberry Cucumber [n/a] common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
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]
common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 8, 104, 106 [secondary reference]
common name: Paddy Melon [n/a] common name: Gooseberry Melon [n/a] common name: Prickly Paddy Melon [n/a]
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: 342, Fig. 346. [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddy Melon [n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 261 BHL [secondary reference]
Jeffrey, C. (1975), Further notes on Cucurbitaceae: III. Some Southern African taxa. Kew Bulletin 30(3): 481 [secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 625 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddy Melon [n/a] common name: Gooseberry Cucumber [n/a] common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
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, Fig. 272E [secondary reference]
common name: gooseberry cucumber [n/a] common name: Paddy melon [n/a]
Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 192, Map 213 [secondary reference]
Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 92 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddymelon [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 155 [secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 139 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly paddy melon [n/a]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 110 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddymelon [n/a]
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]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 159, Fig. 42 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddy Melon [n/a]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 446 [secondary reference]
common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
Kirkbride, J.H. (1993), Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): 27 [secondary reference]
Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 381, Fig. 79b [secondary reference]
common name: Gooseberry Melon [n/a] common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 446 [secondary reference]
common name: Paddy Melon [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 568 [secondary reference]
common name: Prickly Paddy Melon [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin subsp. myriocarpus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis myriocarpus subsp. leptodermis (Schweick.) C.Jeffrey & P.Halliday legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Cucumis myriocarpus subsp. myriocarpus in Qld and as C. myriocarpus subsp. leptodermis in NSW, Vic and ACT.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Schaefer, H. (2007), Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) must include Cucumella, Dicoelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce: a recircumscription based on nuclear and plastid DNA data. Blumea 52: 168 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin subsp. myriocarpus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis leptodermis Schweick. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cucumis myriocarpus subsp. leptodermis (Schweick.) C.Jeffrey & P.Halliday legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Cucumis myriocarpus subsp. myriocarpus in Qld and as C. myriocarpus subsp. leptodermis in NSW, Vic and ACT.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 34 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)