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The genus Cucurbita is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cucurbita

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cucurbita andreana Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita argyrosperma Huber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita cordata S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita cylindrata L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita digitata A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita ecuadorensis Cutler & Whitaker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita fraterna L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita galeottii Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita lundelliana L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita moschata Duchesne	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita palmata S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita pedatifolia L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita pepo L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita radicans Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cucurbita × scabridifolia L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 121 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cucurbita. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 46 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cucurbita. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 121 species names for the genus Cucurbita recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	15.7%
◕	Synonym	88	72.7%
◕	Unplaced	4	3.3%
◕	Unassessed	10	8.3%

All names

The status of the 167 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cucurbita recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	14.4%
◕	Synonym	129	77.2%
◕	Unplaced	4	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	10	6.0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 121 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cucurbita, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	19	84	0	0	103	85.1%
	Low confidence	0	4	4	10	18	14.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cucurbita, are as follows: