Key to Cucurbita
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(For a list of species in Cucurbita, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1' Mature plants trailing; flowers yellow; fruit < 10 cm wide
2. Leaf blade Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
angular, finely toothed or weakly lobed at base;
tendril branched generally > 1 cm from base
..... C. foetidissima 2' Leaf blade deeply lobed, coarsely toothed at base or not; tendril branched ± from base
3. Leaf blade
lobes 1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
± lance-linear, distinct ± to
petiole Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.
..... C. digitata 3' Leaf blade lobes triangular or wide-lanceolate, distinct ± 1/2 to petiole
..... C. palmata
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