Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 1011 (1753).

Synonymy: C. pubescens sensu T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 110 (1848), non Willd.; C. jucundus F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 3:45 (1859); C. picrocarpus F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 3:46 (1859); C. trigonus sensu Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:317 (1866), non Roxb. (1832); C. chaete sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 807 (1965), non Hasselq. ex L. (1757). , Cucumis chate, Cucumis melo

Common name: Ulcardo melon, rock melon.

Description:
Trailing or climbing annual herb; stems to 6 m long; hispid or villous; leaves with petioles 25-80 mm long, hispid; lamina ovate in outline, 2-9 x 3-8 cm, mostly shallowly to deeply 3-5-lobed; lobes ovate, sinuate-dentate to lobulate, acute or obtuse, or in 2-4-flowered fascicles.

Peduncles 3-25 mm long; hypanthium narrowly campanulate, 3-6 mm long; corolla lobes ovate, 5-15 mm long, yellow; female flowers solitary; peduncles 3-30 mm long; ovary ellipsoidal, 5-10 mm long, densely pubescent to (not in S.Aust.) villous.

Fruit glabrescent or hirsute, green to yellow; seeds 5-8 mm long.

Published illustration: Telford & Marsden in Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 272A-D.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, MU.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.   southern Asia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: S.Aust. populations may prove to be an unnamed indigenous variant superficially similar to Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis (Naudin)Grebensc. of tropical Africa and Asia.

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