Editing Citrullus (section)

==Taxonomy==
Molecular data, including sequences from the original collection of ''Momordica lanata'' made near Cape Town by C. P. Thunberg in 1773, show that what Thunberg collected is not what has been called ''Citrullus lanatus'', the domesticated watermelon, since the 1930s. Although this error only occurred in 1930 (Bailey, Gentes Herbarum 2: 180–186), it has been perpetuated in hundreds of papers on the watermelon. In addition, there is an older name for the watermelon, ''Citrullus battich'' <small>Forssk. (Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 167. Jun 1775)</small>, which would normally have the precedence over ''Momordica lanata'' <small>Thunberg (Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 13. 1794)</small>. To solve this problem, it has been proposed to conserve the name ''Citrullus lanatus'' with a new type to preserve  the current sense of the name <ref name="Renner">{{cite journal|last1=Renner|first1=Susanne S.|last2=Sousa|first2=Aretuza|last3=Chomicki|first3=Guillaume|title=Chromosome numbers, Sudanese wild forms, and classification of the watermelon genus ''Citrullus'', with 50 names allocated to seven biological species|journal=Taxon|date=30 November 2007|volume=66|issue=6|pages=1393–1405|doi=10.12705/666.7|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321424513|access-date=13 February 2018|language=en|format=PDF|issn=0040-0262|oclc=7249727155}}</ref>

===Species===
''Citrullus'' consists of the following species and subspecies:<ref name="Renner"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Achigan-Dako |first1=Enoch G. |last2=Avohou |first2=Edgar S. |last3=Linsoussi |first3=Come |last4=Ahanchede |first4=Adam |last5=Vodouhe |first5=Raymond S. |last6=Blattner |first6=Frank R. |title=Phenetic characterization of Citrullus spp. (Cucurbitaceae) and differentiation of egusi-type (C. mucosospermus) |journal=Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution |date=30 January 2015 |volume=62 |issue=8 |pages=1159–1179 |doi=10.1007/s10722-015-0220-z |s2cid=254499849 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271526130 |access-date=2 July 2019}}</ref>

*''[[Citrullus amarus]]'' <small>[[Schrad.]]</small> – [[citron melon]]
*''[[Citrullus colocynthis]]'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]) [[Schrad.]]</small> – colocynth
*''[[Citrullus ecirrhosus]]'' <small>[[Cogn.]]</small> – tendril-less melon
*''[[Citrullus lanatus]]'' <small>([[Thunb.]]) [[Matsum.]] & [[Takenoshin Nakai|Nakai]]</small> – desert watermelon
**[[Citrullus lanatus subsp. vulgaris var. cordophanus|''Citrullus lanatus'' subsp. ''vulgaris'' var. ''cordophanus'']] <small>([[Ter-Avan.]]) [[Fursa]]</small>
**[[Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus|''Citrullus lanatus'' var. ''lanatus'']]
*''[[Citrullus mucosospermus]]'' <small>([[Fursa]]) [[Fursa]]</small> – [[egusi]] melon
*''[[Citrullus naudinianus]]'' <small>([[Sond.]]) [[Hook.f.]]</small>
*''[[Citrullus rehmii]]''