Accepted scientific name:
Cucumis anguria (accepted name)
Synonyms: -
Infraspecific taxon: Cucumis anguria subsp. anguria L.
Cucumis anguria var. longaculeatus J.H. Kirkbride
Cucumis anguria subsp. longipes (J.D. Hook.) I. Grebenscikov
Common names:
Common name Language Country
West Indian gherkin - -
Classification:
Plantae CoL
Phylum Tracheophyta CoL
Class Magnoliopsida CoL
Order Cucurbitales CoL
Family Cucurbitaceae World Plants
Genus Cucumis World Plants
Distribution: Angola, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Prov., Transvaal), Namibia, Swaziland, Botswana, Réunion (introduced), Seychelles (introduced), Costa Rica (introduced), Puerto Rico (introduced), Belize (introduced), Aruba (introduced), Bonaire (introduced), Curacao (introduced), Haiti (introduced), Dominican Republic, Queensland (introduced), Peru (introduced), Cuba (introduced), Jamaica (introduced), Nicaragua (introduced), Venezuela (introduced), Brazil (introduced), Guyana? (introduced), Surinam (introduced), French Guiana (introduced), Argentina (introduced), Paraguay (introduced), Panama (introduced), Guatemala (introduced), Lesser Antilles (introduced) (Anguilla (introduced), St. Barts (introduced), Antigua (introduced), Saba (introduced), St. Eustatius (introduced), Guadeloupe (introduced), Martinique (introduced), St. Lucia (introduced), St. Vincent (introduced), Grenadines (introduced), Grenada (introduced), Barbados (introduced)), Mexico (introduced), Marquesas Isl. (introduced) (Nuku Hiva (introduced)), Niue (introduced), Cape Verde Isl. (Santo Antao Isl., Ilha de Sao Nicolau, Ilha de Maio, Ilha de Sao Tiago, Fogo Isl., Ilha Brava), USA (introduced) (California (introduced), Massachusetts (introduced), New York (introduced), Oregon (introduced), Washington State (introduced))
Lifezones: -
Additional data: Binomial generated by Sp2000
Source database: World Plants, Mar 2014   100%
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: -
Online resource: http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu//
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:1565f4de-ac8f-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20140401