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|accepted_name=Cucumis anguria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1011. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=West Indian or bur gherkin
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cucumis;Cucumis anguria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cucumis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cucumis anguria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 32, 33, 34
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dioecious, roots thin, without thick, woody rootstock. <b>Tendrils</b> setose. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole hispid to setose; blade broadly to narrowly ovate, deeply palmately 3–5-lobed to weakly 3-lobed or nearly unlobed, [sometimes pedately lobed], 3–12(–15) × 2.5–12(–15) cm, length 0.9–1(–2) times width, base cordate, lobes broadly elliptic to obovate, spatulate, or ovate, margins serrate or entire. <b>Inflorescences</b>: pedicels of pistillate flowers distally dilated; staminate flowers 3–10 in racemes, pedunculate or sessile; pistillate flowers: calyx lobes 2–4 mm, petals 6–8 mm, corolla tube 0–1 mm, sparsely puberulent inside. <b>Pepos</b> light yellowish green to light yellow, sometimes with light green stripes, usually ellipsoid, rarely obovoid, 2–7 × 1.5–4 cm, surfaces ± aculeate at maturity, flesh greenish white to yellowish green. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=Africa;Atlantic Islands (Cape Verde Islands);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (Marquesas Islands);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Pepos obscurely aculeate, aculei 1–2 mm; leaf blades deeply palmately 3–5-lobed.
|[[Cucumis anguria var. anguria|Cucumis anguria var. anguria]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Pepos prominently aculeate, aculei 4–10(–15) mm; leaf blades deeply palmately 3–5-lobed to weakly 3-lobed or nearly unlobed.
|[[Cucumis anguria var. longaculeatus|Cucumis anguria var. longaculeatus]]
|}
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name=Cucumis anguria
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|distribution=Africa;Atlantic Islands (Cape Verde Islands);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Pacific Islands (Marquesas Islands);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_56.xml
|genus=Cucumis
|species=Cucumis anguria
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