Details for: PI 105334, Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn., Chia Tung Kwa


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.
Top Name:
Chia Tung Kwa
Origin:
Collected – China
Received by NPGS:
Apr 1934
PI Assigned:
1934
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.
Top Name:
Chia Tung Kwa
Origin:
Collected – China
Received by NPGS:
Apr 1934
PI Assigned:
1934
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
April 1934.
China
Locality: Seed collected west of Peping

Collector(s):
Donated
25 April 1934.
Beijing Shi, China

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Chia Tung Kwa
Type: Unverified name

Narrative
A winter gourd used mostly in soup. Seed is pltd in the middle of March in coldframe, transpltd when 2 or 3 leaves have developed. Only one gourd is allowed to grow on a vine but each gourd weighs from 15 to 20 lbs.
Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn.
Genus:
Benincasa
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:

6746
Place of publication:

A. L. P. P. de Candolle & A. C. de Candolle, Monogr. phan. 3:513. 1881
Verified:
05/09/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cucurbita hispida Thunb.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Benincasa pruriens (Seem.) W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes f. hispida (Thunb.) W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes
Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. var. hispida (Thunb.) H. Hara

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Benincasa cerifera Savi
Benincasa pruriens (Seem.) W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes
Benincasa pruriens (Seem.) W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes f. pruriens
Cucurbita pruriens Seem.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishash gourd  1Chakravarty, H. L. 1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 328.
Englishash-pumpkin  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
EnglishChinese preserving-melon  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
EnglishChinese-watermelon  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishwax gourd  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishwhite gourd  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishwhite-pumpkin  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishwinter-melon  1McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Chinesedong gua冬瓜 2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Frenchbenincasa  2Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
Frenchcourge à cire  2Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union
Frenchcourge cireuse  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchpastèque de Chine  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanWachskürbis  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Indiapetha  2Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Indonesiankundur  2Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:95.
Japanese Rōmajitōgan  2Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Malaykundor  2Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:95.
Portugueseabóbora-d'água  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishcalabaza blanca  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishvaxpumpa  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Koreandonga  2Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:84.
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