Cucurbita

Cucurbita
	Sample o Cucurbita
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Faimily:	Cucurbitaceae
Subfaimily:	Cucurbitoideae
Tribe:	Cucurbiteae
Genus:	Cucurbita; L.
Species
	see text
Synonyms
	Mellouia Gasp.; Melopepo Mill.; Ozodycus Raf.; Pepo Mill.; Pileocalyx Gasp.; Sphenantha Schrad.; Tristemon Scheele;

Cucurbita is a genus in the gourd faimily Cucurbitaceae first cultivatit in the Andes an Mesoamerica an nou uised in mony pairts o the warld.^[1]^[2] It includes species grown for thair fruit an edible seeds (the squashes, pumpkins an marrows, an the chilacayote), as well as some species grown anly as gourds. Thir gourds (an ither squashes) come in mony colours, includin blue, orange, yellae, reid, an green. Thay hae bicollateral vascular bundles. Mony North an Central American species are visitit bi specialist pollinators in the apid group Eucerini, especially the genera Peponapis an Xenoglossa, an thir bees can be very important for fruit set.

Cucurbita species are uised as fuid plants bi the larvae o some Lepidoptera species, includin cabbitch mochs, Hypercompe indecisa, an turnip mochs. Cucurbitin is foond in Cucurbita seeds.^[3]

Several species o Cucurbita are native tae North Americae, includin Cucurbita foetidissima (buffalo gourd), Cucurbita digitata (calabazilla), an Cucurbita palmata (coyote melon). Thir plants produce gourds an furm lairge, fleshy, tuber-lik ruits. Some species, houiver, are native tae Sooth Americae, includin Cucurbita pepo.

Species

Leetit alphabetically.^[4]

C. argyrosperma
C. cordata
C. digitata – fingerleaf gourd
C. ecuadorensis
C. ficifolia – figleaf gourd, chilacayote
C. foetidissima – stinkin gourd, buffalo gourd
C. lundelliana
C. maxima – winter squash, pumpkin
C. mixta – pipian, cushaw pumpkin
C. moschata – butternut squash, 'Dickinson' pumpkin
C. okeechobeensis
C. palmata
C. pedatifolia
C. pepo – acorn squash, field pumpkin, yellae simmer squash, zucchini, smaa multicoloured gourds
C. radicans – calabacilla, calabaza de coyote

References

↑ Whitaker (1947)
↑ Whitaker (1956)
↑ "Complete Pumpkin information from". Drugs.com. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
↑ GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Cucurbita". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived frae the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 Juin 2011.

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[1] Whitaker (1947)

[2] Whitaker (1956)

[3] "Complete Pumpkin information from". Drugs.com. Retrieved 2 September 2012.

[grin-4] GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Cucurbita". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived frae the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 Juin 2011.

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