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June 2025

latest classification for this taxon

genus

Citrullus Schrad.

This genus name was first published in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 2: 279 1836

At the time of this classification snapshot, this genus name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-4000008410.

Literature

Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 2: 279. 1836 [Jan 1836]
Forsskål, P., & Niebuhr, C. (1775). Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica :sive descriptiones plantarum. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41

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Synonyms of Citrullus

Name	Author	Protologue	WFO link
Anguria	Mill.	Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4 : s.p. (1754)	wfo-4000002116
Colocynthis	Mill.	Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4. [s.p.] (1754)	wfo-4000008964
Pseudocucumis	C.Jeffrey	Genet. Resursy Kul't. Rast. 174. 2009	wfo-4000031477
Rigocarpus	Neck.	Elem. Bot. 1: 238 (1790)	wfo-4000043727

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Unplaced Names

These names are not yet placed in the taxonomy, but may be associated with Citrullus:

Name	Author	Protologue	Nomenclator	WFO link
Citrullus afer	Schrad.	Index Seminum [Gottingen] 1834: 2 1834	—	wfo-1000067020
Citrullus afer	Schrad.	Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 2: 179 1836	—	wfo-1000067021
Citrullus lanatus	(Thunb.) Mansf.	–	—	wfo-1200105733
Citrullus lanatus subsp. vulgaris	(Schrad.) Fursa	Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 57(1): 37. 1972		wfo-0001368542
Citrullus vulgaris var. afrorum	Alef.	Landw. Fl. 210 (1866)		wfo-1200101200
Citrullus vulgaris var. senegalicus	Fursa	Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 47(7):10 39. 1962		wfo-0001398919