PUBLISHED IN: Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges, by A. N. Duchesne, p. 7. 1786. Extrait de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, by Chevalier de la Lamarck. C. J. Panckoucke, Paris, 46 pp.

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SYNONYMY: Cucurbita pepo var. moschata Duchesne ex Lam., Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 2(1): 152. 1786.         

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA: Cucurbita moschata var. colombiana Zhiteneva, Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike, Genetike i Selektsii 47: 312, 531; f. 207, 208. 1930.
     Cucurbita moschata var. melonaeformis (Carr) L.H. Bailey, Gentes Herbarium 7: 468. 1948.
     Cucurbita moschata var. mexicana Zhiteneva, Trudy po Prikladnoi Botanike, Genetike i Selektsii 47: 312, 531, f. 211–213. 1930.          

VERNACULAR NAME: squash

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: pumpkin, tropical pumpkin, calabaza
     Arabic: qara' sudani
     Chinese: zhong guo, nan gua zi, nan kua, na gua
     Danish: moskusgræskar, centnergræskar
     Dutch: reuzenkalebas
     French: courge muscarde, courge musquée, giraumon
     German: Moschuskürbis, Bisamkürbis
     Hebrew: dela'at
     Hindi: vilayati kaddu, lal kumra, mitha kumra, kadimah, sitaphal
     Italian: zucca moscada, zucca muschiata, zucca torta
     Japanese: nihon kabocha
     Malay: labu merah
     Portuguese: abóbora almiscarada. abóbora da Guiné, abóbora moscata, abóbora preta
     Russian: tykva krupnoplodnaja
     Spanish: calabaza moscada, calabaza almisclada, calabaza almiscarada, calabaza amelonada
     Tagalog: kalabasa
     Yoruba (Nigerian): elegede

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CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 40.

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