Details for: PI 512096, Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth, Calabaza hedionda.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

Top Name:

Calabaza hedionda.

Origin:

Collected – Guanajuato, Mexico

Maintained:

National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit

Received by NPGS:

15 Apr 1987

PI Assigned:

1987

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Inventory Volume:

196
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

Top Name:

Calabaza hedionda.

Origin:

Collected – Guanajuato, Mexico

Maintained:

National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit

Received by NPGS:

15 Apr 1987

PI Assigned:

1987

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

12 November 1984.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Locality: Border of railroad along irrigation ditch for sorghum. On road from Salamanca, 27km W of Celaya, Guanajuato.
Elevation: 1810m.

Collector(s):

Donated

15 April 1987.
California, United States

Donor(s):

Merrick, Laura C., University of California-Davis

Accession Names and Identifiers

Calabaza hedionda.

Type: Local name

841112-04

Type: Donor identifier

BGCU 764

Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative

Three fruits from a single plant. Large fleshy tap root. Fruit small, round, green with bitter white flesh. Described by local people as 'camote'.

Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

Genus:

Cucurbita

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Cucurbiteae

Nomen number:

12590

Place of publication:

F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 2:98[folio]; 2:123[quarto]. 1817

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58728899

Verified:

02/17/2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	buffalo gourd	1	Gathman, A. C. & W. P. Bemis. 1990. Domestication of buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 335-348.
English	Missouri gourd	1	Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
English	prairie gourd	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
German	Prärie-Kürbis	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Spanish	calabacilla amarga	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	calabazilla	2	Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
Spanish	chilicote	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	bisonpumpa	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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