• Family : CUCURBITACEAE
  (Gourd Or Melon Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KHARBOOZA FAMILY (खरबूजा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CUCURBITACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cucumis melo L.
• Common name : Muskmelon, Sweetmelon
• Vernacular name : Karit (Marathi); Vellari, Kattuvellari, Pekkummatti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Weed of cultivated fields.
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Malay Archipelago, North Australia, Afghanistan, Persia
• World Distribution : West Asia, Indo-Malesia, North Africa, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India;
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cucumis callosus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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