Cucurbita palmeri

Cucurbita palmeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Genus:	Cucurbita
Species:	C. palmeri
Binomial name
	Cucurbita palmeri; L.H.Bailey
Synonyms
	Cucurbita argyrosperma subsp. argyrosperma var. palmeri (L.H.Bailey) & ;

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[]

^ ^a ^b "Cucurbita palmeri". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved September 14, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ 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.

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