The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms ...

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28. Cucurbita moschata (Duchesne ex Lam.) Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges 7.
1786.
Cucurbita pepo var. moschata Duchesne ex Lam., Encycl. 2: 152. 1786.
Type: “M. Duchesne presume que cette gourge est la meme que le cucurbita major rotunda,
flore luteo, folia aspero de G.B. Pin 312 qui est le Cucurbita India rotunda
de Dalechampe (Lugd. 616).”
Distribution in India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Himachal
Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Rajasthan,
Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh.
Distribution outside India: Native to Central or South America.
Image: See efloraofindia at https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/
cucurbitaceae/cucurbita/cucurbita-moschata
GenBank: Numerous sequences from the three plant organellar genomes.
29. Cucurbita pepo L., Sp. Pl. 2: 1010. 1753.
Lectotype: Herb. Linn. No. 1151.4 (LINN), designated by Keraudren-Aymonin in
Aubréville & Leroy (ed.), Fl. Cambodge Laos Viêt-Nam 15: 105. 1975.
Distribution in India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Himachal
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram,
Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh. Cultivated.
Distribution outside India: Native to Central or South America.
Image: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Pumpkin.html
GenBank: Numerous sequences from the three plant organellar genomes.
Comments: See Barrie (Taxon 55: 795-796. 2006) for a history of this name.
Chakravarty (1982) also mentions the varietis var. melopepo Alef. and var. ovigera
Alef.; we are unsure about their validity.
30. Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad., Index Seminum, Gottingen 1831: 2. 1831;
emend in Linnaea 8(Litt.): 22–27. 1833.
Momordica pedata L., Sp. Pl. 2: 1009. 1753.
Lectotype: Peru, “Momordica fructu striato, Laevi, vulgo Caigua” in Feuillée, J. Obs.,
2: 754. t. 41. 1714, designated by Jeffrey in Kew Bull. 34: 796. 1980.
Distribution in India: Cultivated in northern India.
Distribution outside India: Native to South America; cultivated also in Bhuthan.
Images: See efloraofindia at https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/
cucurbitaceae/cyclanthera/cyclanthera-pedata
GenBank: Sequences from Decker-Walters et al. (2004), e.g., AY396221, AJ748597.