Cucumis

Accepted species 60 Documented here 17 Family Cucurbitaceae

Accepted species 60 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cucumis melo L. 211 documented
Cucumis dipsaceus Ehrenb. ex Spach 122 documented
Cucumis maderaspatanus L. 92 documented
Cucumis zeyheri Sond. 66 documented
Cucumis myriocarpus Naudin 59 documented
Cucumis hirsutus Sond. 45 documented
Cucumis sativus L. 30 documented
Cucumis metuliferus E.Mey. ex Naudin 24 documented
Cucumis anguria L. 23 documented
Cucumis sagittatus Wawra & Peyr. 19 documented
Cucumis prophetarum L. 15 documented
Cucumis africanus L.f. 12 documented
Cucumis rigidus E.Mey. ex Sond. 10 documented
Cucumis althaeoides (Ser.) P.Sebastian & I.Telford 9 documented
Cucumis ritchiei (C.B.Clarke) Ghebret. & Thulin 6 documented
Cucumis setosus Cogn. 3 documented
Cucumis variabilis P.Sebastian & I.Telford 3 documented
Cucumis hystrix Chakrav. 1 below the evidence gate
Cucumis aculeatus Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis aetheocarpus (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis argenteus (Domin) P.Sebastian & I.Telford 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis asper Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis baladensis Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis bryoniifolius (Merxm.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis canoxyi Thulin & Al-Gifri 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis carolinus J.H.Kirkbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis cinereus (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis clavipetiolatus (J.H.Kirkbr.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis costatus I.Telford 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis debilis W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis engleri (Gilg) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis ficifolius A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis globosus C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis gracilis (Kurz) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis hastatus Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis heptadactylus Naudin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis humofructus Stent 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis indicus Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis insignis C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis javanicus (Miq.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis jeffreyanus Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis kalahariensis A.Meeuse 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis kelleri (Cogn.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis kirkbridei Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis leiospermus (Wight & Arn.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis meeusei C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis messorius (C.Jeffrey) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis picrocarpus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis pubituberculatus Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis pustulatus Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis queenslandicus I.Telford 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis quintanilhae R.Fern. & A.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis reticulatus (A.Fern. & R.Fern.) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis rostratus J.H.Kirkbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis rumphianus (Scheff.) H.Schaef. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis sacleuxii Paill. & Bois 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis silentvalleyi (Manilal, T.Sabu & P.Mathew) Ghebret. & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis thulinianus J.H.Kirkbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis umbellatus I.Telford 0 below the evidence gate
Cucumis zambianus Widrl., J.H.Kirkbr., Ghebret. & K.R.Reitsma 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.