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Taxon:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:
12597
Place of publication:
Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges 7. 1786 Aug-Sep? (J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 2:151. 1786 Oct)
Comment:
for author see Taxon 49:303-317. 2000
Verified:
06/29/2000
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
65
(
65
active,
11
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
(Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
andreana
(Naudin) Filov
(0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
(2 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
Note:
http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/cultural/Cucurbita_maxima_K/
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Chakravarty, H. L.
1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 1990 332.
Erhardt, W. et al.
Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cucurbita+maxima&quantity=1
Fursa, T. B. & A. I. Filov.
1982. Cucurbitaceae (
Citrullus
,
Cucurbita
). Kul't. Flora SSSR 21:163.
Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds.
Flora de Veracruz. 1978-
http://www.ecologia.edu.mx/publicaciones/flover.htm
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.
Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. 2008
Note:
introduced
International Seed Testing Association.
A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
King, S. R. et al.
2010. Genetics, breeding and selection of rootstocks for Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. Sci. Hort. 127:106-111.
Lira-Saade, R.
1995. Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae Latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 9:9-10, 69-72.
Note:
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
Mabberley, D. J.
Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition. 2008 236.
Note:
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:94.
Nee, M.
1990. The domestication of
Cucurbita
(Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):59.
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
Paris, H. S.
2000. First two publications by Duchesne of
Cucurbita moschata
(Cucurbitaceae). Taxon 49:303-317.
Note:
regarding authorship
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
Sisko, M. et al.
2003. Genome size analysis in the genus
Cucurbita
and its use for determination of interspecific hybrids obtained using the embryo-rescue technique. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 165:663-669.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
great pumpkin –
Reference(s)
pumpkin –
Reference(s)
red gourd –
Reference(s)
squash –
Reference(s)
winter squash –
Reference(s)
German
Reisen-Kürbis –
Reference(s)
Speise-Kürbis –
Reference(s)
Italian
zucca –
Reference(s)
Swedish
jättepumpa –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
sun gua –
Reference(s)
Urdu (Pakistan)
halva kaddu –
Reference(s)
mitha kaddu –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Southern America
Southern South America
Argentina
c. & n.
1
Native
Southern America
Southern South America
Uruguay
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
Native
Southern America
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina
(c. & n.),
Uruguay
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Hamdard 38:97. 1995) –
Reference(s)
Social
religious/secular (for Halloween fide Mabberleys Pl Book) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses