Melothria

Melothria
Melothria pendula (creeping cucumber) fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily:	Cucurbitoideae
Tribe:	Benincaseae
Genus:	Melothria L. [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms [2]
List CladosicyosHook.f. CorynosicyosF.Muell. CucumeropsisNaudin DiclidostigmaKunze HarlandiaHance LandersiaMacfad. MelanciumNaudin PosadaeaCogn.

Melothria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, native to the Americas from the United States to Argentina, and with some introductions in Africa and elsewhere. A number of Old World species formerly in Melothria were reassigned to Cucumis . ^[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include: ^[2]

• Melothria campestris (Naudin) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
• Melothria cucumis Vell.
• Melothria dulcis Wunderlin
• Melothria hirsuta Cogn.
• Melothria longituba C.Jeffrey
• Melothria pendula L.
• Melothria pringlei (S.Watson) Mart.Crov.
• Melothria scabra Naudin
• Melothria schulziana Mart.Crov.
• Melothria sphaerocarpa (Cogn.) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
• Melothria trilobata Cogn.
• Melothria warmingii Cogn.

References

1. Sp. Pl.: 35 (1753)
2. "Melothria L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
3. Schaefer, Hanno (2007). "Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) must include Cucumella, Dicoelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce: A recircumscription based on nuclear and plastid DNA data". Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants. 52: 165–177. doi:10.3767/000651907X612427.