Cucurbita L.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Colorado, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Peru, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Wyoming
Introduced into:
Albania, Andaman Is., Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil South, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chad, Chagos Archipelago, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Connecticut, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gilbert Is., Greece, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Illinois, India, Indiana, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos, Leeward Is., Line Is., Maine, Marianas, Marshall Is., Massachusetts, Michigan, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, North Carolina, Norway, Ohio, Oman, Ontario, Pakistan, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Québec, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Spain, St.Helena, Sudan, Sumatera, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Tokelau-Manihiki, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Wake I., West Himalaya, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Zaïre
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Melopepo Mill. in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4.: s.p. (1754)
- Ozodycus Raf. in Atlantic J. 1: 145 (1832)
- Pepo Mill. in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4.: s.p. (1754)
- Pileocalyx Gasp. in Rendiconto Accad. Sci. Soc. Borbon. Napoli 6: 409 (1847)
- Sphenantha Schrad. in Linnaea 12: 416 (1838)
- Tristemon Scheele in Linnaea 21: 586 (1848), nom. illeg.
Accepted Species
- Cucurbita andreana Naudin
- Cucurbita argyrosperma C.Huber
- Cucurbita cordata S.Watson
- Cucurbita cylindrata L.H.Bailey
- Cucurbita digitata A.Gray
- Cucurbita ecuadorensis Cutler & Whitaker
- Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché
- Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
- Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.
- Cucurbita lundelliana L.H.Bailey
- Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
- Cucurbita melopepo L.
- Cucurbita moschata Duchesne
- Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) L.H.Bailey
- Cucurbita palmata S.Watson
- Cucurbita pedatifolia L.H.Bailey
- Cucurbita pepo L.
- Cucurbita radicans Naudin
- Cucurbita × scabridifolia L.H.Bailey
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 2: 555.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
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Flora of Somalia
- Flora of Somalia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0