      
Taxon: Cucumis sativus L.
Genus: Cucumis subgenus: Cucumis section: Cucumis
Family: Cucurbitaceae tribe: Benincaseae.
Nomen number: 404426
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1012. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-Feb-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Nov-2008
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions:
90 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- brown-netted cucumber (Source: Phytoneuron
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- cucumber (Source: BSBI
) – English
- cucumber (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- gherkin (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- Khiva cucumber (Source: Phytoneuron
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- Nepalese cucumber (Source: Phytoneuron
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- red-netted cucumber (Source: Phytoneuron
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- Sikkim cucumber (Source: Phytoneuron
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- Xishuangbanna gourd (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – English ["Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis"]
- huang gua (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- shihuo (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – Transcribed Chinese ["Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis"]
- xi nan ye huang gua (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii]
- concombre (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- concombre commun (Source: L Noms French ed7
) – French [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- cornichon (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- Gurke (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- khira (Source: Biol Cucurb
330.1990) – India [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- cetriolino da sottaceto (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- cetriolo (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- cetriolo da tavola (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- ki-uri (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- kyūri (Source: F Japan
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- oi (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:94.) – Transcribed Korean [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- pepino (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- cohombro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- pepino (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- gurka (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- More:
- Harmful organism host: test organism for crop diseases (fide Virus Diseases 59. 1987)
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
- 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).
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
- Chen, J.-F. & X.-H. Zhou.
2011. Cucumis.
In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, vegetables.
6:67–90. [this review commented on the unsuccessful crosses of Cucumis sativus with any other wild species; a few attempts had required embryo rescue techniques].
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Converse, R. H., ed.
1987. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631.
- De Wilde, W. J. J. O. & B. E. E. Duyfjes.
2007. The wild species of Cucumis L. (Cucurbitaceae) in South-East Asia.
Adansonia
sér. 3, 29:246–247.
- Demilly, D. et al.
2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Ghazanfar, S. A.
2003–. Flora of Oman.
- 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.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards.
1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
- 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.
- Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993–. Flora of Japan.
- Kirkbride, J. H., Jr.
1993. Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae).
84.
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:94.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Schaefer, H.
2007. Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) must include Cucumella, Dicoelospermum, Mukia, Myrmecosicyos, and Oreosyce: a recircumscription based on nuclear and plastid DNA data.
Blumea
52:168.
- Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
8:157.
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana.
- 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.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Cucumis sativus L.:
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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.
Images:
- GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
- Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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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?404426 (19 May 2013)
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