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Taxon:
Citrullus lanatus
(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var.
citroides
(L. H. Bailey) Mansf.
Synonym of
Citrullus amarus
Schrad.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Citrullus
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
314922
Place of publication:
Kulturpflanze, Beih. 2:422. 1959
Verified:
08/04/2014
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
Dane, F. & J. Liu.
2007. Diversity and origin of cultivated and citron type watermelon (
Citrullus lanatus
). Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 54:1255-1265.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960-. Flora zambesiaca.
URL:
http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
Note:
as
Citrullus lanatus
Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Note:
=
Citrullus lanatus
Citroides Group
Fursa, T. B. & A. I. Filov.
1982. Cucurbitaceae (
Citrullus
,
Cucurbita
). Kul't. Flora SSSR 21:21.
Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14
Note:
online as
Citrullus lanatus
Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
URL:
http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
Note:
=
Citrullus lanatus
subsp.
lanatus
Citroides Group
King, S. R. et al.
2010. Genetics, breeding and selection of rootstocks for Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. Sci. Hort. 127:106-111.
Levi, A. et al.
2001. Genetic diversity among watermelon (
Citrullus lanatus
and
Citrullus colocynthis
) accessions. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 48:559-566.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
Levi, A. et al.
2002. A genetic linkage map for watermelon derived from a testcross population: (
Citrullus lanatus
var.
citroides
×
C. lanatus
var.
lanatus
. Theor. Appl. Genet. 105:555-563.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
Levi, A. et al.
2005. Analysis based on RAPD and ISSR markers reveals closer similarities among
Citrullus
and
Cucumis
species than with
Praecitrullus fistulosus
(Stocks) Pangalo. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 52:465-472.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
Note:
this study mentioned high crossability and genetic similarity between the two varieties of
Citrullus lanatus
Maheshwari, J. K.
1978. Nomenclatural revision of some cultivated watermelons. Indian J. Forest. 1:181.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Navot, N. & D. Zamir.
1987. Isozyme and seed protein phylogeny of the genus
Citrullus
(Cucurbitaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 156:61.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
Nesom, G. L.
2011. Toward consistency of taxonomic rank in wild/domesticated Cucurbitaceae. Phytoneuron 2011-13:6.
URL:
http://www.phytoneuron.net/
Note:
=
Citrullus caffer
Schrad.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Renner, S. S. et al.
2014. (0000) Proposal to conserve the name
Momordica lanata
(
Citrullus lanatus
) (watermelon, Cucurbitaceae), with a conserved type, against
Citrullus battich
. Taxon 63:(in press).
URL:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
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