PUBLISHED IN: Cat. Graines 1867: 8. 1867.

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SYNONYMY: Cucurbita mixta Pangalo, Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike, Genetike i Selektsii [Bull. Appl. Bot. Pl. Breed. (Leningrad)] 23: 264, figs. 1–4. 1930.
     Cucurbita argyrosperma hort. ex L. H. Bailey
     Cucurbita sororia L. H. Bailey, Gentes Herb. 6: 284, figs. 141, 144. 1943.

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA: Cucurbita argyrosperma subsp. sororia (L.H. Bailey) Merrick & D.M. Bates, Baileya 23: 98. 1989. Basionym: Cucurbita sororia L. H. Bailey, Gentes Herbarium; occasional papers on the kind of plants 6: 285, f. 141, 144. 1943.

VERNACULAR NAME: cushaw

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: silver-seed gourd, pumpkin, winter squash
     Arabic: qara sudani
     Chinese: mo xi ge nan gua, yü-kwa
     Danish: centnergræskar
     Dutch: reuzenkalebas
     French: potiron
     German: Riesen-Kürbis
     Hindi: vilayati kaddu
     Italian: zucca gigante
     Japanese: seiyou-kabocha
     Portuguese: abóbora menina
     Russian: tykva knupnoplodnaja
     Spanish: pipian

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CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 40.

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