PI 438922 GRIN-Global

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol.

Top Name:

W-C 2358

Origin:

Collected – Mexico

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

Dec 1979

PI Assigned:

1980

Form Received:

Seed

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

188
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	10 count		PI 438922 01 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol.

Top Name:

W-C 2358

Origin:

Collected – Mexico

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

Dec 1979

PI Assigned:

1980

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

12 February 1979.
Mexico
Locality: Km 142, above Manguita, between Totolapan and Tehuantepec, O axaca

Collector(s):

Donated

December 1979.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

W-C 2358

Type: Donor identifier

HW 0179

Type: Exploration identifier

Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS

Exploration ID links

Narrative

Slender climbing vine. Fruit oblong, 4.5cm diam., 6cm long, smooth, base dark green with white stripes, apex white, partially dehiscent at apex along 3 sutures. Seeds embedded in chambered papery placental tissue, flat, dark brown, 0.9cm long. Locally called Calabazade raton. Tendrils, strongly climbing, not sprawling. Dioecious. Night-flowering (flowers open shortly after sunset). Self-fertile. Short-day sensitive.

Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol.

Genus:

Polyclathra

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Cucurbiteae

Nomen number:

105045

Place of publication:

Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bononiensis 4:438, t. 46. 1840

Verified:

01/04/2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Common names

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 27 May 1987, from Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol. to Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn.
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 31 Jul 1995, from Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn. to Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
SUBSET	Image	Image present in GRIN database	Seed - Image of seed		S9.CUCURBITS.IMAGE.SEED	PI 438922 or SD	Not Available

Agricultural Research Service

Details for: PI 438922, Polyclathra cucumerina Bertol., W-C 2358

Observations