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Taxon: Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.

Genus: Cyclanthera
Family: Cucurbitaceae subfamily: Cucurbitoideae tribe: Sicyeae subtribe: Cyclantherinae.
Nomen number: 12773
Place of publication: Ind. sem. hort. acad. goetting. 1831; Linnaea 8: Litt. 23. 1833
Name verified on: 17-Feb-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Feb-2005
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 11 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • wild cucumber   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – English
  • concombre grimpant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • korila   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – German
  • achoccha   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Quichua (Peru)
  • caiba   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • caigua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • caihua   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  • caygua   (Source: Biol Cucurb 319.1990) – Spanish
  • pepino de comer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Distributional range:

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated in tropics

      Other:
  • origin South America

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Check other databases for Cyclanthera pedata (L.) Schrad.:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images 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.

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12773 (09 February 2010)

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