      
Taxon: Cucumis sativus L.
Genus: Cucumis subgenus: Cucumis section: Cucumis
Family: Cucurbitaceae subfamily: Cucurbitoideae tribe: Melothrieae subtribe: Cucumerinae.
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:
85 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- cucumber (Source: BSBI
) – English
- cucumber (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- gherkin (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sativus]
- netted brown cucumber (Source: Pl Names
) – English [Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis]
- Xishuangbanna gourd (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – English [Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis]
- shihuo (Source: Cucurb.Gen.C. 17:18.) – Transcribed Chinese [Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis]
- concombre (Source: Dict Rehm
) – 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]
- 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]
- More:
- Harmful organism host: test organism for crop diseases (fide Virus Diseases 59. 1987)
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
China: China - Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Converse, R. H., ed.
1987. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631. (Virus Diseases)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Kirkbride, J. H., Jr.
1993. Biosystematic monograph of the genus Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae). (Monog Cucumis)
84.
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- 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.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
8:157.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
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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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?404426 (09 February 2010)
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