Taxon: "Cucumis sativus L. var. xishuangbannanesis ined."

• this name not yet validly published
• no Latin description was provided by the authors

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cucumis sativus (90 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (7 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. sativus (1486 accessions)
• Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis (2 accessions)

Common names:

• Xishuangbanna gourd   (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – English
  
• shihuo   (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – Transcribed Chinese
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Cucurb. Gen. Coop. 17:20. 1993)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for cucumber   (fide Cucurb Gen Coop 17:18. 1993)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan [s.]

References:

• Chen, J.-F. et al. 1994. The Xishuangbanna gourd (Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannesis Qi et Yuan), a traditionally cultivated plant of the Hanai people, Xishuangbanna, Yunan, China. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 17:18–20.
• Kirkbride, J. H., Jr. 1993. Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae). 120. [= C. sativus L.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Yang, S. L. et al. 1991. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:29–31.
• Zhao, X. et al. 2011. Comparison of the distribution of the repetitive DNA sequences in three variants of Cucumis sativus reveals their phylogenetic relationships. J. Genet. Genomics 38:39–45.

Check other web resources for "Cucumis sativus L. var. xishuangbannanesis ined.":

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

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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.

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