Details for: PI 560024, Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) Fursa, Egusi


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) Fursa
Top Name:
Egusi
Origin:
Collected – Oyo, Nigeria
Received by NPGS:
23 Apr 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Availability
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Seed10 countPI 560024 CR02 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) Fursa
Top Name:
Egusi
Origin:
Collected – Oyo, Nigeria
Received by NPGS:
23 Apr 1990
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Source History
Collected
17 August 1984.
Oyo, Nigeria
Locality: Ibadan
Coordinates: 7.3667, 3.8500 (Map it)

Donated
23 April 1990.


Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Egusi
Type: Local name

NH84/260
Type: Donor identifier

Grif 462
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Y1-1 (Green). Fruit small, round, light green. Fruit length 19.5cm, width 39cm, weight 880g, diameter 12cm. Skin thick 0.4cm. Fruit flesh white. Seed size medium, length 16mm, width 10mm, thin, uniform. Coat yellow. Margin black.
Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) Fursa
Genus:
Citrullus
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:

468433
Place of publication:

Trudy Prikl. Bot. 81:111. 1983
Verified:
08/25/2015 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai subsp. mucosospermus Fursa

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishegusi melon as Citrullus lanatus1PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: mentions egusi melon under Citrullus lanatus
Englishegusi watermelon as Citrullus lanatus1PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: mentions egusi melon under Citrullus lanatus
EnglishWest African watermelon as Citrullus lanatus1PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: mentions egusi melon under Citrullus lanatus
Frenchmelon à pistache as Citrullus lanatus2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: mentions egusi melon under Citrullus lanatus
Frenchpastèque égousi as Citrullus lanatus2PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: mentions egusi melon under Citrullus lanatus
Nigeria (Yoruba)egusi as Citrullus lanatus2Burkill, H. M. 1985-2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 25 Aug 2015, from Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai subsp. lanatus to Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 25 Jun 1992, from Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. to Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 10 Jun 1997, from Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai to Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai subsp. lanatus
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 07 Nov 2016, from Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai to Citrullus mucosospermus (Fursa) Fursa
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CHEMICALSeed (entire) oil percentageMean percent seed (entire) oil content39.82 WATERMELON.SEED.OIL.CONTENT.2012 Not Available
DISEASEPOWDERY MILDEW RACE 2Resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlechtend.:Fr.) Race 2 Pollacci isolate)3 - Susceptible (disease index 6.1 to 9.0) WATERMELON.POWDERYMILDEW.THOMAS.2005 Not Available
GENSTOCKPloidyPloidy2X S9.WATERMELON Not Available
MORPHOLOGYBackground colorFruit rind background color2 - Medium Green WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit color patternColor pattern of fruit rind2 - Striped WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFlesh colorColor of ripe fruit flesh4 - White WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit diameterMaximum fruit diameter in centimeters12 WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit lengthFruit length in centimeters12 WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit shapeGeneral fruit shape1 - Round WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRind stripe colorColor of rind stripes3 - Dark Green WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
PHENOLOGYMaturityRelative time of maturation5 - Midseason WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONFruit weightFruit weight measured in kilograms1.2 WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
QUALITYBrixMass percent sucrose determined by a hand held refractometer2.00 WATERMELON.2000PI 560024 01 SDNot Available
SUBSETCore subsetA flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subsetY - Yes, accession is part of the core subset WATERMELON.CORE Not Available
SUBSETImageImage present in GRIN databaseSeed - Image of seed WATERMELON.IMAGE.SEEDPI 560024 or SDNot Available