8622.000 Cucurbita L. - Squashes and gourds

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Herbs, annual or perennial, stem angular, hispid or hairy; tendrils branched, mostly 2-4-fid. Leaves petiolate; lamina ovate, generally 5 lobed, base cordate, hirsute or scabrescent. Inflorescence solitary, shortly pedunculated; flowers large, yellow, lobes 5, subulate, spathulate or leafy, corolla campanulate, shallowly 5-lobed, lobes usually recurved. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds many, ovate or oblong, smooth, marginate or emarginated.

Derivation of name: 20 species in tropical America.

Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon.

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Other sources of information about Cucurbita:

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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cucurbita

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Cucurbita
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Cucurbita
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cucurbita
Wikipedia: Cucurbita
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cucurbita
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Cucurbita

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Cultivated plants: genus page: Cucurbita.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/genus.php?genus_id=2232, retrieved 1 April 2023

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