Melothria L.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Angola, Benin, Borneo, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China Southeast, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malaya, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Uganda, Zaïre
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Cladosicyos Hook.f. in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 534 (1871)
- Corynosicyos F.Muell. in Select Pl., ed. 2: 59 (1876)
- Cucumeropsis Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 5: 30 (1866)
- Diclidostigma Kunze in Linnaea 17: 576 (1843)
- Harlandia Hance in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 2: 648 (1852)
- Landersia Macfad. in Fl. Jamaica 2: 142 (1837)
- Melancium Naudin in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 16: 175 (1861)
- Posadaea Cogn. in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique, sér. 2, 20: 476 (1890)
Accepted Species
- Melothria campestris (Naudin) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
- Melothria cucumis Vell.
- Melothria dulcis Wunderlin
- Melothria hirsuta Cogn.
- Melothria longituba C.Jeffrey
- Melothria pendula L.
- Melothria pringlei (S.Watson) Mart.Crov.
- Melothria scabra Naudin
- Melothria schulziana Mart.Crov.
- Melothria sphaerocarpa (Cogn.) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner
- Melothria trilobata Cogn.
- Melothria warmingii Cogn.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 2: 562.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0