Biology:Cucurbita galeottii
| Cucurbita galeottii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Cucurbitales |
| Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Genus: | Cucurbita |
| Species: | C. galeottii
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| Binomial name | |
| Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.
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Cucurbita galeottii is a plant species of the genus Cucurbita.[1][2][3] It is native to Oaxaca, Mexico.[4] It has not been domesticated.[5][6] There is very little known about this species.[7] Nee reports that the species is a xerophyte and that Bailey only saw the species in photographs. It is only known from specimens that "lack roots, female flowers, fruits and seeds".[2]
The species was formally described by Alfred Cogniaux in 1881, in the third volume of Alphonse and Casimir de Candolle's Monographiæ Phanerogamarum.[3]
Cucurbita galeottii (ch'ako') is a wild form of squash with round or pear-shaped fruits similar to small bottle gourds, with a green skin and white/yellow stripes. Ch'ako is found along lowland roadsides of southern Mexico. The fruit is tough skinned and bitter, but the young greens are eaten boiled.[8]
References
- ↑ Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1943). "Species of Cucurbita". Gentes Herbarum (Ithaca, NY) 6: 267–322.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nee, Michael (1990). "The Domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae)". Economic Botany (New York: New York Botanical Gardens Press) 44 (3, Supplement: New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of New World Domesticated Plants): 56–68. doi:10.1007/BF02860475.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Cucurbita galeottii | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = September 1, 2013 }}
- ↑ Dhillon, B. S.; Tyagi, R. K. (2005). Plant Genetic Resources: Horticultural Crops. New Delhi: Narosa Publishing House. p. 39. ISBN 81-7319-581-1. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9788173195815/page/39.
- ↑ Smith, Bruce D. (1992). Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8173-5425-1.
- ↑ Traynor, Patricia L.; Westwood, James H. (February 1999). "Ecological Effects of Pest Resistant Genes in Managed Ecosystems". Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic and State University. p. 81. http://www.isb.vt.edu/documents/proceedings.pdf.
- ↑ Saade, Rafael Lira (1991). "Mexico and IBPGR Launch Ecogeographic Study of Latin American Cucurbitaceae". Diversity (Washington, DC: Genetic Resources Communications Systems) 7 (1 & 2): 54. http://www.wlbcenter.org/journal/vol7_1.pdf.
- ↑ Breedlove, Dennis E.; Laughlin, Robert M. (1993). Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1370.
External links
- Original description by Cogniaux, 1881 (in Latin)
Wikidata ☰ Q15533598 entry
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