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Taxon:  Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.



Summary
Genus:
Lagenaria
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
21385
Place of publication:
Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 3(3):435. 1930
Verified:
09/19/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cucurbita siceraria Molina

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Lagenaria leucantha Rusby

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita lagenaria L.
Cucurbita leucantha Duchesne
Cucurbita longa hort.
Lagenaria lagenaria (L.) Cockerell, nom. inval.
Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.
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Reference(s)
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Common names
English
bottle gourd –
calabash –
calabash gourd –
white-flower gourd –
French
calebassier –
gourde bouteille –
German
Flaschenkürbis –
gewöhnlicher Flaschenkürbis –
Kalebasse –
India
dudhi –
Japanese Rōmaji
hyōtan –
Portuguese
cabaco –
Spanish
acocote –
cajombre –
calabaza –
guiro amargo –
Swedish
flaskkurbits –
Transcribed Chinese
hu lu –
Transcribed Korean
bag –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
4Naturalized    widely natzd. in tropics
6Other    origin paleotropics
Native
Africa
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Zimbabwe
Naturalized (widely natzd. in tropics)
Other (origin paleotropics)
Economic Uses
Human food
Materials
carved material (shells of fruits for containers, musical instruments fide Biol Cucurb 326. 1990; fishing floats, Econ Bot 53:101. 1999) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al., as Lagenaria leucantha) –


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