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The genus Citrullus is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Citrullus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrullus ecirrhosus Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrullus rehmii De Winter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 25 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Citrullus. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Citrullus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 25 species names for the genus Citrullus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	16.0%
◕	Synonym	21	84.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 56 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Citrullus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	8.9%
◕	Synonym	51	91.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 25 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Citrullus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	4	21	0	0	25	100%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Citrullus, are as follows: