Cucurbita palmeri

Cucurbita palmeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita
Species: C. palmeri
Binomial name
Cucurbita palmeri
L.H.Bailey
Synonyms[1]
  • Cucurbita argyrosperma subsp. argyrosperma var. palmeri (L.H.Bailey) Merrick & D.M.Bates

Cucurbita palmeri is a plant species of the genus Cucurbita.[2][1] It is native to the Pacific coast of northwestern Mexico to Nicaragua.[2] It is closely related to Cucurbita argyrosperma and Cucurbita sororia.[3]

The species was formally described by Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1943, in Gentes Herbarum.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 GRIN (May 22, 1997). "Cucurbita palmeri L. H. Bailey". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. JSTOR 4255271.
  3. Nabhan, Gary P. (1984). "Evidence of Gene Flow Between Cultivated Cucurbita mixta and a Field Edge Population of Wild Cucurbita at Onavas, Sonora". Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University) 7: 76–77.