Details for: PI 500406, Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin, Chitungusa

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin

Top Name:

Chitungusa

Origin:

Collected – Copperbelt, Zambia

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Nov 1981

PI Assigned:

1986

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Vine

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

194
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	50 count		PI 500406 13ncai01 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin

Top Name:

Chitungusa

Origin:

Collected – Copperbelt, Zambia

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Nov 1981

PI Assigned:

1986

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Vine

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Collected

01 June 1981.
Copperbelt, Zambia
Locality: Chilela, Muflira District, Copperbelt Province
Coordinates: -12.6333, 28.4500 (Map it)

Collector(s):

Donated

November 1981.
Italy
Comment: Received through Intern. Board for Pl. Genetic Resources (IBPGR), Rome, Italy
Donor(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

Chitungusa

Type: Local name

ZM 2197

Type: Collector identifier

Narrative

Fruit spiny.

Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin

Genus:

Cucumis

Subgenus:

Cucumis

Section:

Metuliferi

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Benincaseae

Nomen number:

12574

Place of publication:

Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 11:10. 1859

Comment:

there is some question as to whether the spelling should be corrected to "metulifer" to reflect the classical Latin termination (Shenzhen ICN Art. 32.2) for the masculine form of this adjectival epithet (see also W. T. Stearn, Botanical Latin ed. 4:91. 1992), but lacking explicit guidance in the Code for this case we retain the original spelling

Verified:

02/06/2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	African horned cucumber	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	African horned melon	1	Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
English	horny cucumber	1	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
English	jelly melon	1	Whitake, T. W. 1990. Cucurbits of potential economic importance. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 321.
English	kiwano	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	concombre africain	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Hommelone	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Horn-Gurke	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
German	Kiwano	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 28 May 2014, from Cucumis spp. to Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin