Taxon: Cucumis sativus L. var. sikkimensis Hook. f.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cucumis sativus (95 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (7 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. sativus (1486 accessions)
• "Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis" (1 accessions)

Common names:

• brown-netted cucumber   (Source: Phytoneuron ) – English
  
• Khiva cucumber   (Source: Phytoneuron ) – English
  
• Nepalese cucumber   (Source: Phytoneuron ) – English
  
• red-netted cucumber   (Source: Phytoneuron ) – English
  
• Sikkim cucumber   (Source: Phytoneuron ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F Bhutan)
  
• Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in cucumber   (fide Acta Hort 579:39. 2002)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Sikkim; Nepal

References:

• Chakravarty, H. L. 1982. Cucurbitaceae. P. 11:37 in: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Kho, Y. O. et al. 1980. Interspecific hybridization in Cucumis L. II. The crossability of species, and investigation of in vivo pollen tube growth and seed set. Euphytica 29:661–672.
• Kirkbride, J. H., Jr. 1993. Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae). [= C. sativus L.].
• Nesom, G. L. 2011. Toward consistency of taxonomic rank in wild/domesticated Cucurbitaceae. Phytoneuron 2011–13:16.
• Nokolova, V. et al. 2002. Possibilities for the use of remote hybridization in the genus Cucumis for the developmentof genetic diversity. Acta Hort. 579:39–43.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

Check other web resources for Cucumis sativus L. var. sikkimensis Hook. f.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Check other databases for 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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