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Flora of New York/Cucurbitales
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Cucurbitales Rhamnaceae … Urticaceae Rosales: Rhamnaceae … Urticaceae Fagales Fagales: Fagaceae, Myricaceae, Juglandaceae, Betulaceae
The order Cucurbitales is part of the nitrogen-fixing clade:
font-size:100%;line-height:100%; nitrogen‑fixing clade Fabales
Rosales
Cucurbitales
Fagales
The Cucurbitales is primarily a tropical order of pantsP. F. Stevens (2001-2015). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, April 2015 and contains fewer than a dozen species known to grow in the wild in New York. All of these species are in the family Cucurbitaceae, and only two of them are considered native to New York State. The remainder have been known to escape from cultivation in the state, but none of them appear to persist for long.Cucurbitaceae
Family Cucurbitaceae
The tribe names and their membership used here for the Cucurbitaceae (gourd family) are from Schaefer & Renner (2011).Hanno Schaefer & Susanne S. Renner (2011). "Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)." TAXON 60(1): 122–138.
Tribe Sicyoeae
Echinocystis
Echinocystis lobata1.jpg Echinocystis lobata Echinocystis (wild cucumber) is a monotypic genus
Cucurbitaceae Sicyoeae Echinocystis
Echinocystis Wild cucumber 1036 1
Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A.Gray Fl. N. Amer. 1: 542 (1840)
1793 Momordica echinata Muhl.
1803 Sicyos lobatus Michx.
1805 Momordica echinata Muhl. ex Willd.
1840 Hexameria echinata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Torr. & A.Gray
1840 Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A.Gray
1888 Echinocystis echinata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
1890 Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene
1957 Echinocystis echinata (Muhl.) Vassilcz. Wild cucumber Prickly cucumber Wild balsam-apple Wild mock-cucumber Concombre grimpant Concombre sauvage Échinocyste lobé Échinocystis lobé Native Secure 3 FACW FAC Annual Herb-vine S5 6406 5 Native most counties ECLO NN 38HFQ 5331404 292597-1 4696 echinocystis/lobata 22378 409854 Echinocystis_lobata 9200005 Echinocystis lobata - 3.jpg
Sicyos
Sicyos angulatus 5309047.jpg Sicyos angulatus Four Sicyos species (burr cucumbers) are known to grow in North America, north of Mexico. Of these, only Sicyos angulatus (one-seed burr cucumber) is prevalent in the east, including New York State. The other species (S. glaber, S. laciniatus, and S. microphyllus) are found in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.Nesom, G.L. 2011. Taxonomy of Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae) in the USA. Phytoneuron 2011-15: 1–11.
Cucurbitaceae Sicyoeae Sicyos
Sicyos Burr cucumber 794 1
Sicyos angulatus L. Sp. Pl.: 1013 (1753)
1753 Sicyos angulatus L.
1767 Elaterium trifoliatum L.
1789 Sicyoides angulata (L.) Medik.
1794 Sicyoides angulata (L.) Moench
1808 Micrampelis echinata Raf.
1815 Sicyos acutus Raf.
1867 Sicyos schimperi Naudin
1979 Sicyos angulatus L. ohtanus Asai
One-seeded burr-cucumber
Oneseed burr cucumber
Angled burr cucumber
Wall burr cucumber
Burr cucumber
Bur cucumber
Star cucumber
Sicyos anguleux Native Secure 5 FACW FACU Annual Herb-vine S5 6407 5 SIAN NN 4X7H6 2874655 117435-Sicyos-angulatus 30348317-2 4698 sicyos/angulatus 22402 316826 Sicyos_angulatus 9201537 Sicyos angulatus - Bur Cucumber.jpg
Tribe Benincaseae
Citrullus
Cucurbitaceae Benincaseae Citrullus
Citrullus Watermelon 56 1 CITRU 1
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai lanatus
1836 Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.
1882 Citrullus citrullus (L.) Karst.
1916 Citrullus lanatus Matsum.& Nakai Watermelon Wild watermelon Pastèque Melon d'eau Introduced Africa Impersistent Not naturalized UPL Annual Herb-vine 914 Xm CILA3 XX 27740 citrullus/lanatus 22356 10675 Citrullus%20lanatus Citrullus colocynthis NY-dist-map.png Water melon in Bahoni garden (2850526653).jpg
Citrullus Watermelon 56 X (excluded taxa)
Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.
1753 Cucumis colocynthis L.
1768 Anguria citrullus Mill.
1833 Colocynthis vulgaris Schrad.
1838 Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. Colocynth Bitter apple Bitter cucumber Egusi Vine of Sodom Introduced Eurasia Africa Impersistent Annual Herb-vine X 310 Not Persisting, Not Native - EXCLUDED CICO7 X0 not NY 4692 0 501571 10674 Citrullus%20colocynthis nymap.svg Citrullus colocynthis 001.JPG
Cucumis
Cucumis sativus 15-p.bot-cucu.sati-05.jpg Cucumis sativus The genus Cucumis contains cucumbers (Cucumis sativus), West Indian gherkins (Cucumis anguria), and melons (Cucumis melo).
Cucurbitaceae Benincaseae Cucumis
Cucumis Melon 388 3 CUCUM 3
Cucumis sativus sativus L. Sp. Pl.: 1012 (1753)
1753 Cucumis sativus L.
1775 Cucumis sativus L. battich-djebbal Forssk.
1796 Cucumis esculentus Salisb.
Cucumber 2023 New York Flora Atlas Introduced southern Asia Impersistent Annual Herb-vine 921 X CUSA4 XW 292296-1 cucumis/sativus Cucumis_sativus Cucumis sativus NY-dist-map.png Cucumis sativus20090812 497.jpg
Cucumis anguria anguria L. West Indian cucumber West Indian gherkin Introduced Impersistent 916 X Not Persisting, Not Native CUAN XX Cucumis anguria NY-dist-map.png Cucumis anguria, Fruits 03.jpg
Cucumis melo melo L.
Cantaloupe
Honeydew melon
Musk melon
Sweet melon Introduced Impersistent 917 X Not Persisting, Not Native CUME XW Noxious:AZ,CT Cucumis melo NY-dist-map.png Chemung, Richmond ? counties Cucumis melo. Melonar.jpg
Lagenaria
Cucurbitaceae Benincaseae Lagenaria
Lagenaria Gourd 452 1
Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 3: 435 (1930)
1753 Cucurbita lagenaria L.
1782 Cucurbita siceraria Molina
1794 Pepo lagenarius Moench
1825 Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.
1827 Cucumis lagenaria (L.) Dumort.
1896 Lagenaria leucantha Rusby (nom. superfl.)
1930 Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.
Bottle gourd
Calabash
White-flowered gourd Introduced Impersistent Annual Herb-vine X 862 Excluded LASI XX lagenaria/siceraria Excluded nymap.svg Excluded ? counties Lagenaria siceraria Tykwa pospolita 2016-09-04 02.jpg
Tribe Cucurbiteae
Cucurbita
Cucurbitaceae Cucurbiteae Cucurbita
Cucurbita Gourd 559 2 CUCUR 2
Cucurbita pepo L. Sp. Pl.: 1010 (1753)
1753 Cucurbita pepo L.
1794 Pepo vulgaris Moench
1805 Cucurbita aurantia Willd.
1827 Cucumis pepo (L.) Dumort.
1838 Pepo aurantius (Willd.) Peterm.
1840 Cucumis zapallo Steud.
1846 Citrullus variegatus Schrad. ex M.Roem. Field pumpkin Introduced Impersistent 918 X Not Persisting, Not Native CUPE MW 329ZP 2874508 292416-1 Cucurbita_pepo Гарбуз звичайний різновидність голонасінна сорт Маслянка.jpg
Tribe Thladiantheae
Thladiantha
赤瓟 Thladiantha dubia -牛津大學植物園 Oxford Botanic Garden- (9216113022).jpg Thladiantha dubia Mitchell (1997)Richard S. Mitchell (ed.) (1997). A checklist of New York State plants. Contributions of a Flora of New York State, Checklist IV. New York State Bulletin No. 490. Page 86. New York State Museum, Albany. lists Thladiantha dubia (Manchu tubergourd) as naturalized in New York.
The only vouchered specimen listed in the New York Flora Atlas is from St. Lawrence County in 1981.Werier, David, Kyle Webster, Troy Weldy, Andrew Nelson, Richard Mitchell†, and Robert Ingalls†. 2023 New York Flora Atlas. New York Flora Association, Albany, New York.
Cucurbitaceae Thladiantheae Thladiantha
Thladiantha Thladiantha 101 1 Bunge
Thladiantha dubia Bunge
1833 Thladiantha dubia Bunge Manchu tubergourd Goldencreeper Wild potato Red-hailstone Thladianthe douteuse Introduced No specimens China, Korea 915 X Not Native THDU XX 4699 thladiantha/dubia 36539 9201070 nymap.svg St. Lawrence No RG observations Thladiantha dubia 002 by peganum.jpg
Tribe Bryonieae
Ecballium
SPRITZGURKE (2).JPG Ecballium elaterium Squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) is the sole species of its genus.
Guy L. Nesom (2020) conjectured that "some, perhaps all, collections of Ecballium from New York and Pennsylvania may represent garden curiosities rather than escaped or established populations." Guy L. Nesom (2020). Ecballium elaterium in FNA Volume 6. Page 11. Flora of North America Association. 5 Nov. 2020.
Cucurbitaceae Bryonieae Ecballium
Ecballium A.Rich. Squirting-cucumber 923 1 ECBAL 1
Ecballium elaterium elaterium (L.) A.Rich. (Linnaeus) A. Richard J.B.G.Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 6: 19 (1824)
1753 Momordica elaterium L.
1766 Momordica officinarum-elaterium Crantz
1824 Ecballium elaterium (L.) A.Rich.
1831 Ecballium agreste Rchb. (nom. superfl.)
1904 Bryonia elaterium (L.) E.H.L.Krause Squirting cucumber Exploding cucumber Momordique Introduced Eurasia northern Africa Impersistent 913 X Not Persisting, Not Native ECEL X0 NY,PA,AL only 2874680 162161-Ecballium-elaterium 77229499-1 14775 Ecballium_elaterium Ecballium elaterium NY-dist-map.png Queens (1879) No NY observations Ecballium elaterium RJP 02.jpg