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Cucurbita galeottii

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Cucurbita galeottii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Cucurbitaceae
Genus:	Cucurbita
Species:	C. galeottii
Binomial name
*Cucurbita galeottii* Cogn.

Cucurbita galeottii is a plant species of the genus Cucurbita.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is native to Oaxaca, Mexico.^[4] It has not been domesticated.^[5]^[6] There is very little known about this species.^[7] Nee reports that the species is a xerophyte and that Bailey only saw the species in photographs. It is only known from specimens that "lack roots, female flowers, fruits and seeds".^[2]

The species was formally describedbyAlfred Cogniaux in 1881, in the third volume of Alphonse and Casimir de Candolle's Monographiæ Phanerogamarum.^[3]

Cucurbita galeottii (ch'ako') is a wild form of squash with round or pear-shaped fruits similar to small bottle gourds, with a green skin and white/yellow stripes. Ch'ako is found along lowland roadsides of southern Mexico. The fruit is tough skinned and bitter, but the young greens are eaten boiled.^[8]

References

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^ Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1943). "Species of Cucurbita". Gentes Herbarum. 6. Ithaca, NY: 267–322.

^ ^a ^b Nee, Michael (1990). "The Domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae)". Economic Botany. 44 (3, Supplement: New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of New World Domesticated Plants). New York: New York Botanical Gardens Press: 56–68. doi:10.1007/BF02860475. JSTOR 4255271. S2CID 40493539.

^ ^a ^b "Cucurbita galeottii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved September 1, 2013.

^ Dhillon, B. S.; Tyagi, R. K. (2005). Plant Genetic Resources: Horticultural Crops. New Delhi: Narosa Publishing House. p. 39. ISBN 81-7319-581-1.

^ Smith, Bruce D. (1992). Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8173-5425-1.

^ Traynor, Patricia L.; Westwood, James H. (February 1999). "Ecological Effects of Pest Resistant Genes in Managed Ecosystems" (PDF). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic and State University. p. 81.

^ Saade, Rafael Lira (1991). "Mexico and IBPGR Launch Ecogeographic Study of Latin American Cucurbitaceae" (PDF). Diversity. 7 (1 &2). Washington, DC: Genetic Resources Communications Systems: 54.

^ Breedlove, Dennis E.; Laughlin, Robert M. (1993). Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. hdl:10088/1370.