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Details for: PI 134198,
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin, Tar Desi
Summary
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
Top Name:
Tar Desi
Origin:
Collected – Punjab, Pakistan
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
21 Sep 1939
PI Assigned:
1939
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Inventory Volume:
140
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
Availability
This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
Top Name:
Tar Desi
Origin:
Collected – Punjab, Pakistan
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
21 Sep 1939
PI Assigned:
1939
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
02 August 1939.
Punjab, Pakistan
Locality:
Collected at Lahore, Punjab, India.
Collector(s):
Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Donated
21 September 1939.
Maryland, United States
Donor(s):
Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Accession Names and Identifiers
Tar Desi
Type: Local name
4455
Type: Collector identifier
Narrative
Said to be a long, green, much-ridged fruit which is used in the same way as No. 4454 (PI 134197). Received as Cucumis melo and re-identified to C. melo var. flexuosus. NOTE: Ames 31282, donated in 2012 by Dr. L. Liu, was said to be PI 134198, but fruit is not flexuosus type as originally described by Koelz in 1939.
Cucumis melo
L. subspp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
Genus:
Cucumis
Subgenus:
Cucumis
Section:
Cucumis
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
12569
Place of publication:
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 11:63. 1859
Comment:
or
Cucumis melo
Flexuosus Group
Verified:
02/06/1996
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucumis melo
L.
(151 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo
(171 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
agrestis
Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chate
(Hasselq.) Sageret
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chito
(C. Morren) Naudin
(1 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
conomon
(Thunb.) Makino
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
dudaim
(L.) Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
momordica
(Roxb.) Duthie & J. B. Fuller
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
texanus
Naudin
(45 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
(3056 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
cantalupo
Ser.
(21 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
inodorus
H. Jacq.
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. var.
melo
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cucumis flexuosus
L.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
Armenian cucumber
1
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
English
serpent melon
as
Cucumis melo
Flexuosus Group
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Note:
=
Cucumis melo
Flexuosus Group
English
snake melon
1
Munger, H. M. & R. W. Robinson.
1991. Nomenclature of
Cucumis melo
L. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:44.
German
armenische Melone
as
Cucumis melo
Flexuosus Group
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Note:
treats as
Cucumis melo
Flexuosus Group
Name
References
Annotations
The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received:
14 Sep 2009, from
Cucumis melo
L. to
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
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Citations
Dhillon, N., A. Monforte, M. Pitrat, S. Pandey, P. Singh, K. Reitsma, J. Garcia-Mas, A. Sharma & J. McCreight.
2011. Melon Landraces of India: Contributions and Importance. Pl. Breed. Rev. 35:85-150
DOI:
10.1002/9781118100509.ch3.
.
Number of accessions cited:
44
Lebeda, A., B. Sedláková, E. Křístková, M. Vajdová, & J. McCreight.
2012. Application of a new approach for characterization and denomination of races of cucurbit powdery mildews–a case study of Czech pathogen populations. In: Sari, N. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Xth Eucarpia meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucubitaceae, Antalya, Turkey, 15-18 October 2012 172-180.
Note:
Oral Presentations
Number of accessions cited:
15
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