Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1013517
Element CodePDCUC0A110
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusProvisional
Name CategoryVascular Plant
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderViolales
FamilyCucurbitaceae
GenusCucurbita
Concept ReferenceFlora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2015. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 6. Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae. Oxford University Press, New York. 496 pp + xxiv.
Taxonomic CommentsFNA (vol. 6, 2015) here transfers C. pepo var. melopepo (= C. melopepo var. melopepo), C. pepo var. ovifera (included in C. melopepo var. melopepo), C. pepo var. ozarkana (= C. melopepo var. ozarkana), and C. pepo var. texana (= C. melopepo var. texana) to C. melopepo. C. pepo in the strict sense, is a Mexican lineage of domesticates that differs from plants generally identified previously as C. pepo ssp. ovifera (here as C. melopepo). C. melopepo, a lineage of northeastern Mexico and the eastern Unites States in which the three wild varieties (var. fraterna, var. ozarkana, var. texana) and the domesticated variety (var. ovifera) share identical mitochondrial DNA sequences (Sanjur et al.) as well as similarities in isozymes and other kinds of DNA.