Taxon: Cucumis sativus L. var. sativus

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cucumis sativus (90 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (7 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis (2 accessions)
• "Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis" (1 accessions)

Common names:

• cucumber   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• gherkin   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• huang gua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• concombre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• concombre commun   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• cornichon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Gurke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• khira   (Source: Biol Cucurb 330.1990) – India
  
• cetriolino da sottaceto   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• cetriolo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• cetriolo da tavola   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ki-uri   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• kyūri   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• oi   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:94.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• pepino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cohombro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pepino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• gurka   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as Cucumis sativus)
  

Distributional range:

• widely cultivated

References:

• Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1:581.
• Chakravarty, H. L. 1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 330.
• Huang, S. et al. 2009. The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. Nat. Genet. 41:1275–1281.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kirkbride, J. H., Jr. 1993. Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae). 84.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Thulin, M. 2000. Distribution on Arabian Peninsula. pers. comm. via e–mail to J. H. Kirkbride, Jr. on 6 Apr.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

• (=) Cucumis sativus var. anatolicus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. anglicus L. H. Bailey
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. cilicicus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus cv.-gr. pickling cucumber
  
• (=) Cucumis sativus cv.-gr. slicing cucumber
  
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. europaeus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. falcatus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. indo-europaeus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. irano-turanicus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. izmir Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. squamosus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. testudaceus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. tuberculatus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cucumis sativus var. vulgatus Gabaev
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Cucumis sativus L. var. sativus:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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