Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Rosids >  Eurosid I >  Order: Cucurbitales >  Family: Cucurbitaceae

Four species, native to from Africa through to Asia with 3 species in southern Africa. Watermelon is a domesticated form of Citrullus lanatus which has a wide distribution from Asia through to Africa where it is found in the Kalahari and called Tsamma.

Publications

• Launert, E. & Roessler, H. 1968. Cucurbitaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 94: 1-22.

• Meeuse, A.D.J. 1962. The Cucurbitaceae of southern Africa. Bothalia 8: 1-111.