 & Nakai, was accepted by the nomenclature committee and confirmed at the International Botanical Congress in 2017.The sweet watermelon was formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 and given the name "Cucurbita citrullus".It was reassigned to the genus "Citrullus" in 1836, under the replacement name "Citrullus vulgaris", by the German botanist Heinrich Adolf Schrader.