Details for: PI 532433, Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin, Calabasa melona

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin

Top Name:

Calabasa melona

Origin:

Collected – Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

09 Jun 1988

PI Assigned:

1989

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Inventory Volume:

198
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Availability

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Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin

Top Name:

Calabasa melona

Origin:

Collected – Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

09 Jun 1988

PI Assigned:

1989

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

13 December 1985.
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico
Locality: Roadside stand near sugar plantation and bridge over a small tributary of Rio Atoyac, 2.5km NE of Atoyac, Municipal Paso del Macho.
Coordinates: 18.9333, -96.7667 (Map it)
Elevation: 500m.

Collector(s):

Donated

09 June 1988.
New York, United States

Donor(s):

Andres, T.C., Cornell University

Accession Names and Identifiers

Calabasa melona

Type: Local name

Type: Donor identifier

Narrative

Fruit oblong, red with yellow flesh. Rind soft. To prepare peel, cut in slices, boil in sugar water.

Sicana odorifera (Vell.) Naudin

Genus:

Sicana

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Cucurbiteae

Nomen number:

33879

Place of publication:

Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 18:181, t. 8. 1862

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41588358

Verified:

04/12/2018 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Basionym
Cucurbita odorifera Vell.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita euodicarpa Hassk.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	casabanana	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	cassabanana	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	musk-cucumber	1	Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
French	calebasse zombi	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	coroá	2	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Portuguese (Brazil)	cruá	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	curuá	2	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Portuguese (Brazil)	curubá	2	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Portuguese (Brazil)	melão-caboclo	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	cohombro de olor	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants

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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 532433 or SD	Not Available