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Taxon:  Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.



Summary
Genus:
Lagenaria
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
21385
Place of publication:
Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 3(3):435. 1930
Verified:
09/19/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cucurbita siceraria Molina

Autonym(s)
Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. var. siceraria

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Lagenaria leucantha Rusby

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita lagenaria L.
Cucurbita leucantha Duchesne
Cucurbita longa hort. ex W. M. Fletcher
Lagenaria lagenaria (L.) Cockerell, nom. inval.
Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.
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Reference(s)
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Common names
English
bottle gourd –
calabash –
calabash gourd –
white-flower gourd –
French
calebassier –
gourde bouteille –
German
Flaschenkürbis –
gewöhnlicher Flaschenkürbis –
Kalebasse –
India
dudhi –
Japanese Rōmaji
hyōtan –
Portuguese
cabaco –
Spanish
acocote –
cajombre –
calabaza –
guiro amargo –
Swedish
flaskkurbits –
Transcribed Chinese
hu lu –
Transcribed Korean
bag –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
4Naturalized    widely natzd. in tropics
6Other    origin paleotropics
Native
Africa
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Zimbabwe
Naturalized (widely natzd. in tropics)
Other (origin paleotropics)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodvegetable Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Human foodvegetableyoung fruitsSiemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:191.
Materialscarved materialfishing floatsDecker-Walters, D. S. 1999. Cucurbit, Sanskrit, and the Indo-Aryas. Econ. Bot. 53:101.
Materialscarved materialshells of fruits for containers, musical instrumentsChakravarty, H. L. 1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 326.
Medicinesfolklore Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Vertebrate poisonsmammalsas Lagenaria leucanthaKellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=21385. Accessed 6 May 2025.