Accepted scientific name:
Cucumis melo (accepted name)
Synonyms: -
Infraspecific taxon: Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naudin
Cucumis melo var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino
Cucumis melo subsp. melo L.
Common names:
Common name Language Country
Cantaloupe - -
Zuckermelone - -
Classification:
Plantae CoL
Phylum Tracheophyta CoL
Class Magnoliopsida CoL
Order Cucurbitales CoL
Family Cucurbitaceae World Plants
Genus Cucumis World Plants
Distribution: Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, ?Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Gambia, ?Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Africa (Transvaal), Myanmar [Burma], Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Laos, Turkey (S-Anatolia: Aleppo etc., SSW-Anatolia), Cyprus (W-Cyprus), Iran (E-Iran, N-Iran: Mts., S-Iran, W-Iran: Mts.), Iraq (NE-Iraq, NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia, W-Iraq: Desert), Israel (E-Israel: Rift Valley, N-Israel), Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan (introduced), Philippines (introduced), China (Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Xinjiang), Taiwan (introduced), Japan (introduced), S-Europe (introduced), Costa Rica (introduced), Peru (introduced), Belize (introduced), Jamaica (introduced), Cuba (introduced), Puerto Rico (introduced), Nicaragua (introduced), Bahamas (introduced), Haiti (introduced), Dominican Republic (introduced), New Caledonia (introduced), Fiji (introduced), Morocco (introduced), ?Guyana (introduced), Surinam (introduced), French Guiana (introduced), Venezuela (introduced), Argentina (introduced), Brazil (introduced), Ecuador (introduced), Galapagos (introduced), Panama (introduced), Mexico (introduced), American Samoa (introduced) (Manua Isl. (introduced), Ta'u (introduced), Tutuila (introduced)), Chagos Arch. (introduced) (Diego Garcia (introduced)), Cook Isl. (introduced) (Rarotonga (introduced)), Marquesas Isl. (introduced), Marshall Isl. (introduced) (Eniwetok (introduced)), Micronesia (introduced) (Yap (introduced), Satawan (introduced)), Palau Isl. (introduced), Society Isl. (introduced) (Raiatea (introduced), Mehetia (introduced), Tetiaroa Atoll (introduced)), Southern Marianas (introduced) (Guam (introduced)), Wake Isl. (introduced), Niue (introduced), Austral Isl. (introduced) (Tubuai (introduced)), Mauritius (introduced), Réunion (introduced), Madagascar (introduced), Andamans (introduced) (Little Andaman Isl. (introduced), South Andamans (introduced)), Java (introduced), USA (introduced) (Alabama (introduced), Arkansas (introduced), California (introduced), Connecticut (introduced), Florida (introduced), Georgia (introduced), Illinois (introduced), Kansas (introduced), Kentucky (introduced), Louisiana (introduced), Massachusetts (introduced), Michigan (introduced), Missouri (introduced), Mississippi (introduced), North Carolina (introduced), New Hampshire (introduced), New Mexico (introduced), Nevada (introduced), New York (introduced), Ohio (introduced), Oklahoma (introduced), Pennsylvania (introduced), Rhode Island (introduced), South Carolina (introduced), Texas (introduced), Utah (introduced), Virginia (introduced), Wisconsin (introduced), West Virginia (introduced)), Canada (introduced) (Ontario (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:15633c1d-ac8f-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20140401