- Human food: fruit ()
- Human food: seeds ()
- Human food: vegetable ()
- Animal food: forage ()
- Gene sources: graft stock relative for cucumber (for greenhouse production fide Biol Cucurb 115. 1990)
- Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in cucurbits (fide Biol Cucurb 115. 1990)
- Medicines: folklore ()
Cultivated
(only cult.)
Other
(probable origin South America)
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
- Andres, T. C. 1990. Biosystematics, theories on the origin and breeding potential of Cucurbita ficifolia (Biol Cucurb) 102-119.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
- Fursa, T. B. & A. I. Filov 1982. Cucurbitaceae (Citrullus, Cucurbita) Kul't. Flora SSSR 21:204.
- Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
- Kates, H. R. et al. 2017. Evolutionary and domestication history of Cucurbita (pumpkin and squash) species inferred from 44 nuclear loci Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 111:98-109.
- Lira Saade, R. & S. Montes Hernández 1994. Cucurbits (Cucurbita spp.) (Neglected Crops) 63-77.
- Lira-Saade, R. 1995. Estudios taxonómicos y ecogeográficos de las Cucurbitaceae Latinoamericanas de importancia económica Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 9:7-8, 67-68.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
- Nee, M. 1990. The domestication of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) Econ. Bot. 44(3 suppl.):58, 63.
- Nuez, F. et al. 1993. Recolección de especies hortícolas en Ecuador Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 96:29-33.
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
- Sanjur, O. I. et al. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:535-540.
- Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables (Pl Res SEAs) 8:165.
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
Check other web resources for Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché :
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=12589. Accessed 24 April 2018.