Details for: PI 123493, Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo, 1

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo

Top Name:

Origin:

Collected – Tamil Nadu, India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Apr 1937

PI Assigned:

1937

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Vine

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

131
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	50 count		PI 123493 03ncai01 SD

Images (2 total. Click on image for more.)

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo

Top Name:

Origin:

Collected – Tamil Nadu, India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Apr 1937

PI Assigned:

1937

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Vine

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Collected

21 February 1937.
Tamil Nadu, India
Comment: Collected in the Madras Presidency in February and March 1937. Collected in the Madras Presidency; from Coimbatore.
Collector(s):

Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry

Donated

26 April 1937.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):

Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry

Accession Names and Identifiers

Type: Collector identifier

Narrative

Fruit small, gold brown with braod rib lines, often flattened, 6 by 8 inches; flesh mealy, sweetish, 2 inches thick, half green and half salmon-colored.

Cucumis melo L. subspp. melo

Genus:

Cucumis

Subgenus:

Cucumis

Section:

Cucumis

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Benincaseae

Nomen number:

12564

Verified:

02/06/1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Cucumis melo L. (151 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo (171 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. agrestis Naudin (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. chate (Hasselq.) Sageret (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. chito (C. Morren) Naudin (1 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. conomon (Thunb.) Makino (3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. dudaim (L.) Naudin (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. momordica (Roxb.) Duthie & J. B. Fuller (0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo var. texanus Naudin (45 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. cantalupo Ser. (21 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. flexuosus (L.) Naudin (47 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. inodorus H. Jacq. (3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo L. var. melo (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bryonia collosa Rottler
Cucumis collosus (Rottler) Cogn.
Cucumis trigonus Roxb.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	melon	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
German	Melone	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian	melone	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	meron	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Swedish	melon	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	tian gua	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean	chamoe	2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:93.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory	Availability
DISEASE	DOWNY MILDEW	RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW CAUSED BY PSEUDOPERONOSPORA CUBENSIS	3 - (1 = LOW SUSCEPTIBILITY, 9 = HIGH SUSCEPTIBILITY)	MELO.DOWNY.MILDEW.89	PI 123493 87ncsi01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	STEM BLIGHT	RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT (MYCOSPHAERELLA CITRULLINA)	9 - SUSCEPTIBLE	S9.CANTALOUPE		Not Available
OTHER	IMAGE/PICTURE1	IMAGE PRESENT IN GRIN DATABASE	FRUIT - Image of fruit.	CUCUMIS.PHOTOGRAPH.FRUIT	PI 123493 87ncsi01 SD	Not Available
OTHER	IMAGE/PICTURE2	IMAGE PRESENT IN GRIN DATABASE	FRUIT - Image of fruit.	CUCUMIS.PHOTOGRAPH.FRUIT	PI 123493 87ncsi01 SD	Not Available
PRODUCTION	100 SEED WEIGHT	100 SEED WEIGHT	2.82	NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE	PI 123493 87ncsi01 SD	Not Available
PRODUCTION	100 SEED WEIGHT	100 SEED WEIGHT	3.26	NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE	PI 123493 03ncai01 SD