Details for: PI 442791, Cucurbita pepo L., 'Little Gem'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita pepo L.
Cultivar:
'Little Gem'
Origin:
Donated – Transvaal, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
May 1980
PI Assigned:
1980
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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Seed50 countPI 442791 81ncni01 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita pepo L.
Cultivar:
'Little Gem'
Origin:
Donated – Transvaal, South Africa
Received by NPGS:
May 1980
PI Assigned:
1980
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
May 1980.
Transvaal, South Africa

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Little Gem'
Type: Cultivar name

Narrative
Fruits orange-yellow at maturity, weigh 140 to 225 grams. Flesh yellow, slightly fibrous, good taste. Most popular of all squashes in South Africa.
Cucurbita pepo L.
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:

12606
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1010. 1753
Verified:
02/17/2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. fraterna (L. H. Bailey) Lira et al. (4 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. gumala Teppner (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker (0 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ovifera (L.) Harz (1 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. ozarkana D. S. Decker (43 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. ovifera (L.) D. S. Decker var. texana (Scheele) Filov (14 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. subsp. pepo (3 active accession[s])
Cucurbita pepo L. var. pepo (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.
Cucurbita mammeata Molina

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbitter bottle gourd  1Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.
Englishbush squash  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishmarrow  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishpumpkin  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishsquash  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchcitrouille  2Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
Frenchcourge pepon  2Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
GermanGemüse-Kürbis  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italianzucchino  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish (Mexico)calabaza  2Lira Saade, R. & S. Montes Hernández. 1994. Cucurbits (Cucurbita spp.). In: Hernándo Bermejo, J. E. & J. León, eds., Neglected crops : 1492 from a different perspective. Plant Production and Protection Series No. 26. 63-77. Note: FAO, Rome, Italy.
Swedishpumpa  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinesexi hu lu  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)ghia kaddu  2Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:96.
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Citations
  • Hernandez C., J. Labate, K. Reitsma, J. Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangiun Fei, R. Grumet, & M. Mazourek . 2023. Characterization of the USDA Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima germplasm collections. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1130814. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1130814. Note: Supplementary material: Table 1. Number of accessions cited: 1661
  • Luckew, A., G. Meru, Ya-Ying Wang, R. Mwatuwa, M. Peret, R. Carvalho, M. Kalischuk, A. Ribeiro da Silva, J. Candian, B. Dutta, R. Srinivasan, S. Kavalappara, R. Konakalla, S. Bag, & C. McGregor. 2022. Field Evaluation of Cucurbita Germplasm for Resistance to Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses. HortScience 57(2):337-344. DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI16197-21. Number of accessions cited: 58
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
PRODUCTIONWeight of 100 seedsWeight of 100 seeds measured in grams.6.44 NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLEPI 442791 81ncni01 SD
PRODUCTIONWeight of 100 seedsWeight of 100 seeds measured in grams.6.67 NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLEPI 442791 81ncno01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTION100 SEED WEIGHTWeight of 100 seeds in grams6.44 NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLEPI 442791 81ncni01 SD
PRODUCTION100 SEED WEIGHTWeight of 100 seeds in grams6.67 NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLEPI 442791 81ncno01 SDNot Available