Taxon: Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth

Common names:

• buffalo gourd   (Source: Biol Cucurb 335.1990) – English
  
• Missouri gourd   (Source: F Missouri ) – English
  
• prairie gourd   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Prärie-Kürbis   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• calabacilla amarga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• calabazilla   (Source: F SCalif ) – Spanish
  
• chilicote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• bisonpumpa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as oil/fat   (fide Biol Cucurb 335-348. 1990)
  
• Human food: potential as starch   (fide Biol Cucurb 335-348. 1990)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide Goffman & Gomez 1996)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of maxima pumpkin/squash   (based on crossability barriers with cultivated Cucurbita fide Syst Ecogeogr Stud 9:91. 1995)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of moschata pumpkin/squash   (based on sterile hybrids with Cucurbita moschata fide J Heredity 54:286. 1963)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of pepo pumpkin/squash   (based on unsuccessful hybridization with Cucurbita pepo fide Syst Ecogeogr Stud 9:28. 1995)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of cushaw   (based on mostly sterile hybrids derived from crosses with Cucurbita argyrosperma fide Syst Ecogeogr Stud 1:23. 1995)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of fig-leaf gourd   (it can produce sterile hybrids with Cucurbita ficifolia fide Syst Ecogeogr Stud 9:26. 1995)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska [s.], Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.], Utah [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco [n.], Mexico, Queretaro

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bailey, L. H. 1943. Species of Cucurbita. Gentes Herb. 6:313.
• Bemis et al. 1978. The buffalo gourd: a new potential horticultural crop. HortScience 13:235–240.
• Bemis, W. P. 1963. Interspecific hybridization in Cucurbita: II C. moschata Poir. × xerophytic species of Cucurbita. J. Heredity 54:285–289.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fursa, T. B. & A. I. Filov. 1982. Cucurbitaceae (Citrullus, Cucurbita). Kul't. Flora SSSR 21:205.
• 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.
• Goffman, F. D. & N. V. Gomez. 1996. Ninth Intern. Conf. Jojoba & Third Intern. Conf. Industr. Crops. 225–228.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Lira-Saade, R. 1995. Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae Latinoamericanas de importancia económica. Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 9:1–116.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
• Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):58. [mentions].
• 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.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes. [both as a wild and adventive].
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Whitaker, T. W. & W. P. Bemis. 1964. Evolution in the genus Cucurbita. Evolution 18:553–559.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cucurbita foetidissima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cucurbita foetidissima.

Check other web resources for Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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