Cucumis

Cucumis genus kan tanom sa pamilyang Cucurbitaceae kun sain kasali an pepino (Cucumis sativus), muskmelons (Cucumis melo, asin cantaloupe, asin honeydew), ang horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), pati an West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria).

Igwang 30 espesye sa Aprikaa, asin 25 sa India, Southeast Asia, asin Australia.

Bibliograpiya

• Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of Cucumis and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 94(7): 1256–1266.
• Renner, S. S., Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A.; Schaefer, H; Kocyan, A (2007). "Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 58–69. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-58. PMID 17425784. 
• Sebastian, P. M., H. Schaefer, I. R. H. Telford, and S. S. Renner. 2010. Cucumber and melon have their wild progenitors in India, and the sister species of Cucumis melo is from Australia" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(32) 14269–14273 (online)
• Telford, I. R. H., P. M. Sebastian, J. J. Bruhl, and S. S. Renner. 2011. Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and the sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 376-389 (online)
• Zhuang, Fei-Yun; Chen, Jin-Feng; Staub, Jack E.; Qian, Chun-Tao (2006). "Taxonomic Relationships of A Rare Cucumis Species (C. hystrix Chakr.) and Its Interspecific Hybrid with Cucumber". HortScience 41 (3): 571–574. Archived from the original on 2018-12-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20181202155256/https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/18117/PDF. Retrieved on 2019-09-17. 

Panluwas na takod

• Multilingual taxonomic information at the University of Melbourne