Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Cucurbitales(ordo)
Cucurbitaceae(fam.)

Cucurbitaceae Juss.

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum

:

393

[tax. nov.]

Type: Cucurbita L.

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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313

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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76

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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221

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

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542-543

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

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803-805

[secondary reference]

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

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199

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

236

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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340-342

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

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422-425, Fig. 4-27

[secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

624-626

[secondary reference]

common name:

Melons

[n/a]

Telford, I.R. & Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

229-230

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

106-107

[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

:

157

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

441

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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245-246

[secondary reference]

Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

379-380

[secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants

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213

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

441

[secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cucurbitaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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83-84

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

568

[secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

419

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

139

[secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae").

Botanical Review

:

101-102

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Nhandirobaceae T.Lestib.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Zanoniaceae Dumort.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bryoniaceae G.Mey.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cyclantheraceae Lilja

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

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

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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236-237, 935

[secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

113

[secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

22 (photo)

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Melon

[n/a]