Length and Rapid Elongation of Pedicels of the Female Flowers of Cucumis anguria L.

Our recent work describing Cucumis zambianus Widrlechner, J.H. Kirkbr., Ghebretinsae & K.R. Reitsma, a new species from Zambia, led us to spend considerable time documenting inflorescence characteristics in this new species and comparing them to other, similar Cucumis taxa (10). Cucumis zambianus and C. anguria share a trait that is rather unusual, pedicels that are […]

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Interactive Microcomputer Database for Identification of Cucumis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:48-50 (article 16) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. Recently a taxonomic monograph (11) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae), as it has been circumscribed since its inception (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, […]

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Database of Native Distributions for Cucumis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:45-47 (article 15) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. A taxonomic monograph (7) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae) was completed, and the morphological, cytological, and macrodistributional data were distributed in a format […]

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