A gift from the new world? the West African crop Cucumeropsis mannii and the American Posadaea sphaerocarpa (Cucurbitaceae) are the same species

Systematic Botany

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 534-540

  Schaefer, Hanno ^a,c   Renner, Susanne S ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benincaseae; DNA barcoding; egusi; long distance dispersal; molecular phylogenetics; oil rich seeds.

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CUCUMEROPSIS; CUCUMEROPSIS MANNII; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITACEAE; MELOTHRIA; POSADAEA SPHAEROCARPA;

EID: 77956522536     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364410792495818     Document Type: Article

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