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Details for: PI 526246,
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne, AMM 928
Summary
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
AMM 928
Origin:
Collected – Zimbabwe
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
09 Feb 1987
PI Assigned:
1988
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
197
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Seed
25 count
PI 526246 09GI SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
AMM 928
Origin:
Collected – Zimbabwe
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
09 Feb 1987
PI Assigned:
1988
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
02 May 1985.
Zimbabwe
Locality:
Inst. Trade Fair, Bulima, Mashonaland Central Province.
Coordinates:
-18.9167, 27.7667
(Map it)
Elevation:
1000m.
Collector(s):
Mushonga
Muza
Rao, S. Appa, Int. Crops Res. Inst. for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Donated
09 February 1987.
Italy
Comment:
Received through IBPGR, Rome, Italy
Donor(s):
Rao, S.A., IBPGR
Accession Names and Identifiers
AMM 928
Type: Donor identifier
Group: IBPGR
International Board for Plant Genetic Resources
Narrative
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:
12597
Place of publication:
Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges 7. 1786 Aug-Sep? (J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 2:151. 1786 Oct)
Comment:
for author see Taxon 49:303-317. 2000
Verified:
06/29/2000
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
andreana
(Naudin) Filov
(6 active accession[s])
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
(91 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
great pumpkin
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
pumpkin
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
red gourd
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
squash
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
winter squash
1
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
German
Reisen-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
German
Speise-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian
zucca
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese
kabocha
2
Cumarasamy, R. et al.
2002. Cultivar differences in New Zealand "Kabocha" (buttercup squash,
Cucurbita maxima
). New Zealand J. Crop Hort. Sci. 30:197-208.
DOI:
10.1080/01140671.2002.9514215
.
Spanish (Peru)
zapallo
2
Leiva González, S. et al.
2015. Cucurbitáceas utilizadas como alimentos en el Perú prehispánico. Arnaldoa 22:439-478.
Swedish
jättepumpa
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
sun gua
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)
halva kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Urdu (Pakistan)
mitha kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Name
References
Annotations
Taxonomic Re-Identification:
13 Feb 1998, from
Cucurbita pepo
L. to
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
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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
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