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Lagenaria siceraria Standl.

Description

Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.

GRIN Nomen number: 21385

Family: Cucurbitaceae

Common Name: acocote (Spanish), bag (Transcribed Korean), bottle gourd (English), cabaco (Portuguese), cajombre (Spanish), calabash (English), calabash gourd (English), calabaza (Spanish), calebassier (French), dudhi (India), Flaschenkürbis (German), gewöhnlicher Flaschenkürbis (German), gourde bouteille (French), guiro amargo (Spanish), hu lu (Transcribed Chinese), ipu (Hawaiian), upu (Hawaiian), white-flower gourd (English), white-flowered gourd (English).

Native: AFRICA - South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe; origin paleotropics.

Naturalized: widely naturalized in tropics.

Field Infestation: Liquido et al. 1994: From July 1990 to October 1992, a total of 3 fruits (1.99 kg) was collected on Hawaii Island. B. latifrons was recovered from 1 of 2 collections (50%) with overall infestation rate of 1.00 B. latifrons per kg of fruit collected.

Lagenaria vulgaris Ser., see Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.

Notes

Published as part of McQuate, Grant T. & Liquido, Nicanor J., 2013, Annotated World Bibliography of Host Fruits of Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 1-61 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (289) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5175793

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Cucurbitales
Family
Cucurbitaceae
Genus
Lagenaria
Species
siceraria
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Liquido, N. J., E. J. Harris, and L. A. Dekker. 1994. Ecology of Bactrocera latifrons (Diptera: Tephritidae) populations: host plants, natural enemies, distribution, and abundance. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87: 71 - 84.