Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and the sister species to C. melo

Systematic Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 376-389

  Telford, Ian R H ^a   Sebastian, Patrizia ^b   Bruhl, Jeremy J ^a   Renner, Susanne S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cucumis picrocarpus; melon; morphological characters; phylogenetics; sequencing herbarium specimens; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE;

EID: 79959544213     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364411X569561     Document Type: Article

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