Cucurbitella asperata

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Cucurbitella asperata is a species of flowering plant in the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae. It is the sole species in genus Cucurbitella.[1] It is a climbing tuberous geophyte native to southern tropical South America, ranging from Bolivia to west-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina.[2]

Cucurbitella asperata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Subfamily: Cucurbitoideae
Tribe: Coniandreae
Genus: Cucurbitella
Walp. (1845)
Species:
C. asperata
Binomial name
Cucurbitella asperata
(Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp. (1846)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Prasopepon Naudin (1866)
  • Schizostigma Arn. (1840)
  • Cucurbita asperata Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. (1833)
  • Cucurbita urkupinana Cárdenas (1945)
  • Cucurbitella cucumifolia (Griseb.) Cogn. (1878)
  • Cucurbitella duriaei (Naudin) Cogn. (1878)
  • Cucurbitella integrifolia Cogn. (1881)
  • Cucurbitella integrifolia var. glabrior Cogn. (1909)
  • Cucurbitella urkupinana (Cárdenas) C.Jeffrey (1978)
  • Prasopepon cucumifolius Griseb. (1874)
  • Prasopepon duriaei Naudin (1866)
  • Schizostigma asperatum (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Arn. (1841)

The species was first described as Cucurbita asperata in 1833. In 1846 Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers placed it in the genus Cucurbitella, which he had named the prior year.[2]

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