Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges
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https://doi.org/ 10.4081/nhs.2015.219 |
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Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges |
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Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges View in CoL : 7. 1786.
( Cucurbitaceae )
Confirmation of casual neophyte for the flora of Pie- monte ( Conti et al., 2005; Celesti-Grapow et al., 2009a).
ITALY. Piemonte. Prov. Vercelli: Vercelli, city cent- er close to river Sesia , roadside, 07.09.2014, F. Verloove 11069 ( BR) .
Doubtlessly an ephemeral alien, this species unlike in other parts of Europe, is frequently cultivated in northern Italy, its fruits being used in different traditional dishes. It is distinguished from the latter by its peduncle that is terete and becoming corky in fruit. Its leaves are almost entire or very shallowly lobed and softly hairy above. C. pepo , in contrast, has peduncles that are deeply furrowed in fruit (conspicuously angled, not corky) and its leaves are deeply 5-lobed and hirsute hairy above.
Cucurbita maxima View in CoL was considered doubtful for Pie- monte by Conti et al. (2005) and not listed from that re- gion by Celesti-Grapow et al. (2009a).
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Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department |
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Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection |
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Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges
Verloove, Filip & Ardenghi, Nicola M. G. 2015 |
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne, Essai Hist. Nat. Courges
Duchesne 1786: 7 |