Cucumis argenteus
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Family Cucurbitaceae
Taxonomy: Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford
Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Melothria argentea Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
- Melothria argentia A.D.Chapm. (nomenclatural synonym)
- Melothria celebica var. villosior Cogn. (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Cucumis maderaspatanus L. (pro parte misapplied)
- Melothria maderaspatana (L.) Cogn. (pro parte misapplied)
- Mukia maderaspatana (L.) M.Roem. (pro parte misapplied)
- Mukia scabrella (L.) Arn. (pro parte misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Dong_2017 (15), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Munroe_2019 (1), NTH_2014 (16), RBGK_2014 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 45 records in 10 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 37.5 mm (30-45 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_width (numerical): 37.5 mm (25-50 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 81.62 g/m2 (77.11-86.13 g/m2) [sources: Dong_2017]
- leaf_shape (categorical): triangular (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
life history
- photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Munroe_2019]
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Dong_2017]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); epizoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): vertebrates (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
nutrient and stable isotope
- leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 27.95 mg/g (22.97-32.93 mg/g) [sources: Dong_2017]
- leaf_delta13C (numerical): -26.97 {delta}[ppth] (-27.1--26.84 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Dong_2017]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 12.72 mg (8.28-15.7 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1; RBGK_2014]
- seed_length (numerical): 4.75 mm (4-5.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seed_width (numerical): 2.75 mm (2-3.5 mm) [sources: NTH_2014]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2014 | 11 | 16 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| Dong_2017 | 8 | 15 | N. Dong, I. C. Prentice, B. J. Evans, S. Caddy-Retalic, A. J. Lowe, and I. J. Wright. “Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate”. Biogeosciences 14.2 (2017), pp. 481-495. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-481-2017. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ANBG_2019 | 1 | 1 | Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Munroe_2019 | 1 | 1 | S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z. |
| RBGK_2014 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |