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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cucumis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cucumis aculeatus Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis aetheocarpus (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis africanus L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis anguria L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis baladensis Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis bryoniifolius (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis canoxyi Thulin & Al-Gifri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis carolinus J.H.Kirkbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis cinereus (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis clavipetiolatus (J.H.Kirkbr.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis debilis W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. ex Spach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis engleri (Gilg) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis ficifolius A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis globosus C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis gracilis (Kurz) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hastatus Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis heptadactylus Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hirsutus Sond.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis humofructus Stent	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis hystrix Chakrav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis indicus Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis insignis C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis javanicus (Miq.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis jeffreyanus Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kalahariensis A.Meeuse	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kelleri (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis kirkbridei Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis leiospermus (Wight & Arn.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis meeusei C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis melo L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis messorius (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis metulifer E. Mey. ex Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Cucumis metuliferus E.Mey. ex Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis prolatior J.H.Kirkbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis prophetarum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis pubituberculatus Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis pustulatus Naudin ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis quintanilhae R.Fern. & A.Fern.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis reticulatus (A.Fern. & R.Fern.) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis rigidus E.Mey. ex Sond.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis ritchiei (C.B.Clarke) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis rostratus J.H.Kirkbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sacleuxii Paill. & Bois	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sagittatus Wawra & Peyr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis sativus L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis silentvalleyi (Manilal, T.Sabu & P.Mathew) Ghebret. & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis thulinianus J.H.Kirkbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucumis zeyheri Sond.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 254 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cucumis. Of these 50 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 257 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cucumis. 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 254 species names for the genus Cucumis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	19.7%
◕	Synonym	164	64.6%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	35	13.8%

All names

The status of the 511 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cucumis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	52	10.2%
◕	Synonym	417	81.6%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	37	7.2%

Of these names,

• 18 are recorded as invalid
• 10 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 254 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cucumis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	49	163	0	0	212	83.5%
	Low confidence	1	1	5	35	42	16.5%

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