Cultivated
Trailing or climbing , annual herb . Stems prostrate or scandent , up to 10 m . long , ± villous , glabrescent . Leaves leaf-blade 5–20 , ovate or narrowly ovate in outline , cordate , ± hairy (especially on the veins beneath) , becoming scabrid-punctate , usually deeply palmately 3–5-lobed , petiolate ; tendrils usually bifid . Inflorescences solitary , borne in leaf axils . Flowers male flowers ± villous , pale green , lanceolate ; petals yellow , obovate , rounded , apiculate ; female flowers ellipsoid or subglobose , villous . Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid , green or yellowish , concolorous or variously mottled or striped ; flesh white or red , watery , usually not bitter . Seeds flat , ovate-elliptic in outline , smooth or slightly rough , dark or pale coloured , often mottled , sometimes bordered . (Ref . POWO ; 2021) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Common
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Citrullus battich var. lanatus (Thunb.) H.Hara
Citrullus vulgaris var. lanatus (Thunb.) L.H.Bailey
Momordica lanata Thunb.
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Water Melon
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.merriam-webster.com *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
