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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Cucurbitaceae
| image = Hodgsonia heteroclita male.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = ''[[Hodgsonia]]'' male plant
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cucurbitales]]
| familia = '''Cucurbitaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]
}}
'''Cucurbitaceae''' is a [[plant]] [[family (biology)|family]] commonly known as '''gourds''' or '''cucurbits''' and includes crops like [[cucumber]]s, [[squash (vegetable)|squashes]] (including [[pumpkins]]), [[luffa]]s, [[melon]]s and [[watermelons]]. The family is predominately distributed around the tropics, where those with edible fruits were amongst the earliest cultivated plants in both the Old and New Worlds.
Most of the plants in this family are [[Annual plant|annual]] [[vine]]s with large [[blossom|showy-blossoms]], usually white or various shades of bright yellow to orange-yellow. The plants produce male and female flowers separately on the same plant, and the female flowers have [[Ovary (plants)#Inferior ovary|inferior ovaries]]. The fruit is a kind of [[berry]] called a [[Epigynous_berry|pepo]].
Most of the plants in this family are readily susceptible to the [[larva]] of a particular [[moth]], the [[squash borer|Squash Borer]].
==Classification==
There are about 118 extant genera in Cucurbitaceae, including 825 species. The following is the classification as given by Charles Jeffrey as of [[1990]].
'''Subfamily Zanonioideae''' (small striate pollen grains)
*Tribe Zanonieae
**Subtribe Fevilleinae: ''[[Fevillea]]''
**Subtribe Zanoniinae: ''[[Alsomitra]] [[Zanonia]] [[Siolmatra]] [[Gerrardanthus]] [[Zygosicyos]] [[Xerosicyos]] [[Neoalsomitra]]''
**Subtribe Gomphogyninae: ''[[Hemsleya]] [[Gomphogyne]] [[Gynostemma]]''
**Subtribe Actinostemmatinae: ''[[Bolbostemma]] [[Actinostemma]]''
**Subtribe Sicydiinae: ''[[Sicydium]] [[Chalema]] [[Pteropepon]] [[Pseudosicydium]] [[Cyclantheropsis]]''
'''Subfamily Cucurbitoideae''' (styles united into a single column)
*Tribe Melothrieae
**Subtribe Dendrosicyinae: ''[[Kedrostis]] [[Dendrosicyos]] [[Corallocarpus]] [[Ibervillea]] [[Tumamoca]] [[Halosicyos]] [[Ceratosanthes]] [[Doyerea]] [[Trochomeriopsis]] [[Seyrigia]] [[Dieterlea]] [[Cucurbitella]] [[Apodanthera]] [[Guraniopsis]] [[Melothrianthus]] [[Wilbrandia]]''
**Subtribe Guraniinae: ''[[Helmontia]] [[Psiguria]] [[Gurania]]''
**Subtribe Cucumerinae: ''[[Melancium]] [[Cucumeropsis]] [[Posadaea]] [[Melothria]] [[Muellarargia]] [[Zehneria]] [[Cucumis]]'' (with [[synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]]s: '' [[Mukia]]'' and ''[[Dicaelospermum]]'' according to Ghebretinsae ''et al.'', is likely that ''[[Cucumella]], [[Oreosyce]]'' and ''[[Myrmecosicyos]]'' are too <ref> Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of ''Cucumis'' and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). ''American Journal of Botany'' 94(7): 1256–1266. </ref> <ref>{{cite journal| last = Renner, S. S.| first = Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A.| title = Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology| volume = 7| year = 2007| pages = 58-69| doi =
10.1186/1471-2148-7-58}} </ref>).
**Subtribe Trochomeriinae: ''[[Solena]] [[Trochomeria]] [[Dactyliandra]] [[Ctenolepsis]]''
*Tribe Schizopeponeae: ''[[Schizopepon]]''
*Tribe Joliffieae
**Subtribe Thladianthinae: ''[[Indofevillea]] [[Siraitia]] [[Thladiantha]] [[Momordica]]''
**Subtribe Telfairiinae: ''[[Telfaria]]''
*Tribe Trichosantheae
**Subtribe Hodgsoniinae: ''[[Hodgsonia]]''
**Subtribe Ampelosicyinae: ''[[Ampelosicyos]] [[Peponium]]''
**Subtribe Trichosanthinae: ''[[Gymnopetalum]] [[Trichosanthes]] [[Tricyclandra]]''
**Subtribe Herpetosperminae: ''[[Cephalopentandra]] [[Biswarea]] [[Herpetospermum]] [[Edgaria]]''
*Tribe Benincaseae
**Subtribe Benincasinae: ''[[Cogniauxia]] [[Ruthalicia]] [[Lagenaria]] [[Benincasa]] [[Praecitrullus]] [[Citrullus]] [[Acanthosicyos]] [[Eureiandra]] [[Bambekea]] [[Nothoalsomitra]] [[Coccinia]] [[Diplocyclos]] [[Raphidiocystis]] [[Lemurosicyos]] [[Zombitsia]] [[Ecballium]] [[Bryonia]]''
**Subtribe Luffinae: ''[[Luffa]]''
*Tribe Cucurbiteae (pantoporate, spiny pollen): ''[[Cucurbita]] [[Sicana]] [[Tecunumania]] [[Calycophysum]] [[Peponopsis]] [[Anacaona]] [[Polyclathra]] [[Schizocarpum]] [[Penelopeia (plant)|Penelopeia]] [[Cionosicyos]] [[Cayaponia]] [[Selysia]] [[Abobra]]
*Tribe Sicyeae (trichomatous nectary, 4- to 10-colporate pollen grains)
**Subtribe Cyclantherinae: ''[[Hanburia]] [[Echinopepon]] [[Marah (plant)|Marah]] [[Echinocystis]] [[Vaseyanthus]] [[Brandegea]] [[Apatzingania]] [[Cremastopus]] [[Elateriopsis]] [[Pseudocyclanthera]] [[Cyclanthera]] [[Rytidostylis]]
**Subtribe Sicyinae: ''[[Sicyos]] [[Sicyosperma]] [[Parasicyos]] [[Microsechium]] [[Sechium]] [[Sechiopsis]] [[Pterosicyos]]''
*[[incertae sedis]]: ''[[Odosicyos]]''
'''Alphabetical list of genera''':
''[[Abobra]] [[Acanthosicyos]] [[Actinostemma]] [[Alsomitra]] [[Ampelosycios]] [[Anacaona]] [[Apatzingania]] [[Apodanthera]] [[Bambekea]] [[Benincasa]] [[Biswarea]] [[Bolbostemma]] [[Brandegea]] [[Bryonia]] [[Calycophysum]] [[Cayaponia]] [[Cephalopentandra]] [[Ceratosanthes]] [[Chalema]] [[Cionosicyos]] [[Citrullus]] [[Coccinia]] [[Cogniauxia]] [[Corallocarpus]] [[Cremastopus]] [[Ctenolepis]] [[Cucumella]] [[Cucumeropsis]] [[Cucumis]] [[Cucurbita]] [[Cucurbitella]] [[Cyclanthera]] [[Dactyliandra]] [[Dendrosicyos]] [[Dicaelospermum]] [[Dieterlea]] [[Diplocyclos]] [[Doyerea]] [[Ecballium]] [[Echinocystis]] [[Echinopepon]] [[Edgaria]] [[Elateriopsis]] [[Eureiandra]] [[Fevillea]] [[Gerrardanthus]] [[Gomphogyne]] [[Gurania]] [[Guraniopsis]] [[Gymnopetalum]] [[Gynostemma]] [[Halosicyos]] [[Hanburia]] [[Helmontia]] [[Hemsleya]] [[Herpetospermum]] [[Hodgsonia]] [[Ibervillea]] [[Indofevillea]] [[Kedrostis]] [[Lagenaria]] [[Lemurosicyos]] [[Luffa]] [[Marah (plant)|Marah]] [[Melancium]] [[Melothria]] [[Melothrianthus]] [[Microsechium]] [[Momordica]] [[Muellerargia]] [[Mukia]] [[Myrmecosicyos]] [[Neoalsomitra]] [[Nothoalsomitra]] [[Odosicyos]] [[Oreosyce]] [[Parasicyos]] [[Penelopeia (plant)|Penelopeia]] [[Peponium]] [[Peponopsis]] [[Polyclathra]] [[Posadaea]] [[Praecitrullus]] [[Pseudocyclanthera]] [[Pseudosicydium]] [[Psiguria]] [[Pteropepon]] [[Pterosicyos]] [[Raphidiocystis]] [[Ruthalicia]] [[Rytidostylis]] [[Schizocarpum]] [[Schizopepon]] [[Sechiopsis]] [[Sechium]] [[Selysia]] [[Seyrigia]] [[Sicana]] [[Sicydium]] [[Sicyos]] [[Sicyosperma]] [[Siolmatra]] [[Siraitia]] [[Solena]] [[Tecunumania]] [[Telfairia]] [[Thladiantha]] [[Trichosanthes]] [[Tricyclandra]] [[Trochomeria]] [[Trochomeriopsis]] [[Tumacoca]] [[Vaseyanthus]] [[Wilbrandia]] [[Xerosicyos]] [[Zanonia]] [[Zehneria]] [[Zombitsia]] [[Zygosicyos]]''
Ref: [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/cucurbit.htm Watson and Dallwitz] [[3 September]] [[2002]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|author=David Bates, Richard Robinson, Charles Jeffrey, eds.|year=1990|title=Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae|publisher=Cornell UP|id=ISBN 0-8014-1670-1}}
* Jeffrey, C. 2005. A new system of Cucurbitaceae. ''Bot. Zhurn'' 90: 332–335. [latest classification of Cucurbitaceae]
==External links==
* [http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html Cucurbitaceae] in [http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html T.C. Andres (1995 onwards)].
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/cucurbit.htm Cucurbitaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.] http://delta-intkey.com
* [http://nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/OnlineResources/Cucumis/ J.H. Kirkbride Jr and M.J. Dallwitz (2000 onwards). Cucumis and Cucumella (Cucurbitaceae): cucumbers and melons.]
*[http://www.echotech.org/technical/technotes/Cucurbit.PDF Cucurbit seed as possible oil & protein sources]
[[Category:Cucurbitaceae| ]]
[[Category:Plant families]]
[[Category:Cucurbitales]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Cucurbitaceae
| image = Hodgsonia heteroclita male.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = ''[[Hodgsonia]]'' male plant
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cucurbitales]]
| familia = '''Cucurbitaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu|Juss.]]
}}
'''Cucurbitaceae''' is a [[plant]] [[family (biology)|family]] commonly known as '''gourds''' or '''cucurbits''' and includes crops like [[cucumber]]s, [[squash (vegetable)|squashes]] (including [[pumpkins]]), [[luffa]]s, [[melon]]s and [[watermelons]]. The family is predominately distributed around the tropics, where those with edible fruits were amongst the earliest cultivated plants in both the Old and New Worlds.
Most of the plants in this family are [[Annual plant|annual]] [[vine]]s with large [[blossom|showy-blossoms]], usually white or various shades of bright yellow to orange-yellow. The plants produce male and female flowers separately on the same plant, and the female flowers have [[Ovary (plants)#Inferior ovary|inferior ovaries]]. The fruit is a kind of [[berry]] called a [[Epigynous_berry|pepo]].
Most of the plants in this family are readily susceptible to the [[larva]] of a particular [[moth]], the [[squash borer|Squash Borer]].
==Classification==
There are about 118 extant genera in Cucurbitaceae, including 825 species. The following is the classification as given by Charles Jeffrey as of [[1990]].
'''Subfamily Zanonioideae''' (small striate pollen grains)
*Tribe Zanonieae
**Subtribe Fevilleinae: ''[[Fevillea]]''
**Subtribe Zanoniinae: ''[[Alsomitra]] [[Zanonia]] [[Siolmatra]] [[Gerrardanthus]] [[Zygosicyos]] [[Xerosicyos]] [[Neoalsomitra]]''
**Subtribe Gomphogyninae: ''[[Hemsleya]] [[Gomphogyne]] [[Gynostemma]]''
**Subtribe Actinostemmatinae: ''[[Bolbostemma]] [[Actinostemma]]''
**Subtribe Sicydiinae: ''[[Sicydium]] [[Chalema]] [[Pteropepon]] [[Pseudosicydium]] [[Cyclantheropsis]]''
'''Subfamily Cucurbitoideae''' (styles united into a single column)
*Tribe Melothrieae
**Subtribe Dendrosicyinae: ''[[Kedrostis]] [[Dendrosicyos]] [[Corallocarpus]] [[Ibervillea]] [[Tumamoca]] [[Halosicyos]] [[Ceratosanthes]] [[Doyerea]] [[Trochomeriopsis]] [[Seyrigia]] [[Dieterlea]] [[Cucurbitella]] [[Apodanthera]] [[Guraniopsis]] [[Melothrianthus]] [[Wilbrandia]]''
**Subtribe Guraniinae: ''[[Helmontia]] [[Psiguria]] [[Gurania]]''
**Subtribe Cucumerinae: ''[[Melancium]] [[Cucumeropsis]] [[Posadaea]] [[Melothria]] [[Muellarargia]] [[Zehneria]] [[Cucumis]]'' (with [[synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]]s: '' [[Mukia]]'' and ''[[Dicaelospermum]]'' according to Ghebretinsae ''et al.'', is likely that ''[[Cucumella]], [[Oreosyce]]'' and ''[[Myrmecosicyos]]'' are too <ref> Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of ''Cucumis'' and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). ''American Journal of Botany'' 94(7): 1256–1266. </ref> <ref>{{cite journal| last = Renner, S. S.| first = Schaefer, H. & Kocyan, A.| title = Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)| journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology| volume = 7| year = 2007| pages = 58-69| doi =
10.1186/1471-2148-7-58}} </ref>).
**Subtribe Trochomeriinae: ''[[Solena]] [[Trochomeria]] [[Dactyliandra]] [[Ctenolepsis]]''
*Tribe Schizopeponeae: ''[[Schizopepon]]''
*Tribe Joliffieae
**Subtribe Thladianthinae: ''[[Indofevillea]] [[Siraitia]] [[Thladiantha]] [[Momordica]]''
**Subtribe Telfairiinae: ''[[Telfaria]]''
*Tribe Trichosantheae
**Subtribe Hodgsoniinae: ''[[Hodgsonia]]''
**Subtribe Ampelosicyinae: ''[[Ampelosicyos]] [[Peponium]]''
**Subtribe Trichosanthinae: ''[[Gymnopetalum]] [[Trichosanthes]] [[Tricyclandra]]''
**Subtribe Herpetosperminae: ''[[Cephalopentandra]] [[Biswarea]] [[Herpetospermum]] [[Edgaria]]''
*Tribe Benincaseae
**Subtribe Benincasinae: ''[[Cogniauxia]] [[Ruthalicia]] [[Lagenaria]] [[Benincasa]] [[Praecitrullus]] [[Citrullus]] [[Acanthosicyos]] [[Eureiandra]] [[Bambekea]] [[Nothoalsomitra]] [[Coccinia]] [[Diplocyclos]] [[Raphidiocystis]] [[Lemurosicyos]] [[Zombitsia]] [[Ecballium]] [[Bryonia]]''
**Subtribe Luffinae: ''[[Luffa]]''
*Tribe Cucurbiteae (pantoporate, spiny pollen): ''[[Cucurbita]] [[Sicana]] [[Tecunumania]] [[Calycophysum]] [[Peponopsis]] [[Anacaona]] [[Polyclathra]] [[Schizocarpum]] [[Penelopeia (plant)|Penelopeia]] [[Cionosicyos]] [[Cayaponia]] [[Selysia]] [[Abobra]]
*Tribe Sicyeae (trichomatous nectary, 4- to 10-colporate pollen grains)
**Subtribe Cyclantherinae: ''[[Hanburia]] [[Echinopepon]] [[Marah (plant)|Marah]] [[Echinocystis]] [[Vaseyanthus]] [[Brandegea]] [[Apatzingania]] [[Cremastopus]] [[Elateriopsis]] [[Pseudocyclanthera]] [[Cyclanthera]] [[Rytidostylis]]
**Subtribe Sicyinae: ''[[Sicyos]] [[Sicyosperma]] [[Parasicyos]] [[Microsechium]] [[Sechium]] [[Sechiopsis]] [[Pterosicyos]]''
*[[incertae sedis]]: ''[[Odosicyos]]''
'''Alphabetical list of genera''':
''[[Abobra]] [[Acanthosicyos]] [[Actinostemma]] [[Alsomitra]] [[Ampelosycios]] [[Anacaona]] [[Apatzingania]] [[Apodanthera]] [[Bambekea]] [[Benincasa]] [[Biswarea]] [[Bolbostemma]] [[Brandegea]] [[Bryonia]] [[Calycophysum]] [[Cayaponia]] [[Cephalopentandra]] [[Ceratosanthes]] [[Chalema]] [[Cionosicyos]] [[Citrullus]] [[Coccinia]] [[Cogniauxia]] [[Corallocarpus]] [[Cremastopus]] [[Ctenolepis]] [[Cucumella]] [[Cucumeropsis]] [[Cucumis]] [[Cucurbita]] [[Cucurbitella]] [[Cyclanthera]] [[Dactyliandra]] [[Dendrosicyos]] [[Dicaelospermum]] [[Dieterlea]] [[Diplocyclos]] [[Doyerea]] [[Ecballium]] [[Echinocystis]] [[Echinopepon]] [[Edgaria]] [[Elateriopsis]] [[Eureiandra]] [[Fevillea]] [[Gerrardanthus]] [[Gomphogyne]] [[Gurania]] [[Guraniopsis]] [[Gymnopetalum]] [[Gynostemma]] [[Halosicyos]] [[Hanburia]] [[Helmontia]] [[Hemsleya]] [[Herpetospermum]] [[Hodgsonia]] [[Ibervillea]] [[Indofevillea]] [[Kedrostis]] [[Lagenaria]] [[Lemurosicyos]] [[Luffa]] [[Marah (plant)|Marah]] [[Melancium]] [[Melothria]] [[Melothrianthus]] [[Microsechium]] [[Momordica]] [[Muellerargia]] [[Mukia]] [[Myrmecosicyos]] [[Neoalsomitra]] [[Nothoalsomitra]] [[Odosicyos]] [[Oreosyce]] [[Parasicyos]] [[Penelopeia (plant)|Penelopeia]] [[Peponium]] [[Peponopsis]] [[Polyclathra]] [[Posadaea]] [[Praecitrullus]] [[Pseudocyclanthera]] [[Pseudosicydium]] [[Psiguria]] [[Pteropepon]] [[Pterosicyos]] [[Raphidiocystis]] [[Ruthalicia]] [[Rytidostylis]] [[Schizocarpum]] [[Schizopepon]] [[Sechiopsis]] [[Sechium]] [[Selysia]] [[Seyrigia]] [[Sicana]] [[Sicydium]] [[Sicyos]] [[Sicyosperma]] [[Siolmatra]] [[Siraitia]] [[Solena]] [[Tecunumania]] [[Telfairia]] [[Thladiantha]] [[Trichosanthes]] [[Tricyclandra]] [[Trochomeria]] [[Trochomeriopsis]] [[Tumacoca]] [[Vaseyanthus]] [[Wilbrandia]] [[Xerosicyos]] [[Zanonia]] [[Zehneria]] [[Zombitsia]] [[Zygosicyos]]''
Ref: [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/cucurbit.htm Watson and Dallwitz] [[3 September]] [[2002]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|author=David Bates, Richard Robinson, Charles Jeffrey, eds.|year=1990|title=Biology and Utilization of the Cucurbitaceae|publisher=Cornell UP|id=ISBN 0-8014-1670-1}}
* Jeffrey, C. 2005. A new system of Cucurbitaceae. ''Bot. Zhurn'' 90: 332–335. [latest classification of Cucurbitaceae]
==External links==
* [http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html Cucurbitaceae] in [http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html T.C. Andres (1995 onwards)].
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/cucurbit.htm Cucurbitaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.] http://delta-intkey.com
* [http://nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/OnlineResources/Cucumis/ J.H. Kirkbride Jr and M.J. Dallwitz (2000 onwards). Cucumis and Cucumella (Cucurbitaceae): cucumbers and melons.]
*[http://www.echotech.org/technical/technotes/Cucurbit.PDF Cucurbit seed as possible oil & protein sources]
[[Category:Cucurbitaceae| ]]
[[Category:Plant families]]
[[Category:Cucurbitales]]
