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Cucumis

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Cucurbitales Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Cucumis

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Dioecious or monoecious, climbing or trailing annual herbs.

Stems: Usually scabrid with short rigid hairs, sometimes hairs multicellular or glandular.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades often palmately 3–7–lobed, or compound. Margins dentate to palmately 3–7-lobed. Petiolate. Stipules absent; tendrils in the stipular position unbranched.

Flowers: Staminate flowers solitary or clustered; pistillate flowers solitary, rarely clustered, sometimes co-axillary with staminate flowers. Flowers unisexual or rarely bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of staminate flowers 5-lobed. Sepals inserted on hypanthium. Corolla of staminate flowers deeply 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate to ovate, nectary disk gland-like; pistillate flowers: perianth as in staminate flowers. petals usually yellow or white, inserted on hypanthium alternate with calyx lobes, usually connate ate base, the limb often rotate. Staminate flowers: Stamens 3, inserted at about the middle of hypanthium, distinct, 2 of the anthers dithecal, the other monothecal, cells flexuous, connectives with apical appendages; anthers opening by longitudinal slits; pistillate flowers: staminodes 3. Ovary inferior, of a single carpel or 3-carpellate with carpels connate into a single 3-lobed cell; ovules 1 to numerous per cell, placentation parietal; style inserted in an annular disk; stigma 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit globose to ellipsoid; fleshy; smooth; bristly; or spiny; indehiscent. Seeds numerous; elliptic; smooth; endosperm absent.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 1011 (1753)

Occurrences

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