Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Cucurbita maxima
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Duchesne
Common names
Atlantic giant pumpkin, Hokkaido squash, Hubbard squash, Pumkin, Pumpkin, Queensland blue squash, Winter squash, banana squash, buttercup squash, great pumpkin, mammoth pumpkin, pompion, red gourd, squash, winter marrow
Names in other languages (78)Abobrinha, Abóbora, Abóbora-cogumelo, Abóbora-coração-de-boi, Abóbora-crioula, Abóbora-de-tortéi, Abóbora-gaúcha, Abóbora-turbante, Ahuyama, Anguria, Antsiribiki, Boston marrow, Calabacita banana, Calabaza de castilla, Calabaza gigante, Centner-græskar, Cocozza, Courge, Courge potiron, Citrouille, Giraumon, Potiron, Courge potiron, Potiron, Courge potiron, Potiron, Citrouille, Potimarron, Giraumon, Dynia Olbrzymia, Helvacı Kabağı, Jerimum, Jerimum-caboclo, Melonenkürbis (DE), Moranga, Moranga-de-bunda, Potiron, Pwmpen, Pwmpenni, Reisen-Kürbis, Reuzenkalebas, Reuzenpompoen, Riasenkyrbis, Riesen-Kuerbis, Riesen-Kürbis, Riesenkürbis, Speise-Kürbis, Suca, Tongang, Trango, Winter squash (EN), Yurú, Zapallo criollo, Zapallo plomo, Zucca, Zucca dolce, halva kaddu, hina, hue rarahi, hue, hue, hue mautini, is-k'um, jättepumpa, jättikurpitsa, kabocha, kjempegraskar, kjempegresskar, mitha kaddu, sun gua, sütőtök, tekvica obrovská, tykev obrovská, zapallo, Óriástök, Тыква гигантская, Тыква крупная, قرع كبير, பூசணி, වට්ටක්කා, ฟักทองยักษ์, ཀ་ཀུ་རུ།, ᎤᎾᏤᏥᏗ, ᱠᱚᱦᱚᱱᱰᱟ, カボチャ, クリカボチャ, 筍瓜, 떡호박
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Cucurbitales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Cucurbita
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
maxima
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Cucurbita maxima
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 13:37.
Photo of Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
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Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 13:37.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 11 of 11 is a host of × interacts with (this species is the record's destination) × is eaten by × has its flowers visited by × has as a parasite × is pollinated by × is adjacent to × has as a pathogen × is visited by × interacts with (this species is the record's origin) × co-occurs ecologically with ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is a host of 167 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Cucurbit Downy Mildew Pseudoperonospora cubensis Peronosporaceae is a host of 39 not compared
Erysiphe cichoracearum is a host of 36 not compared
Black Rot on Cucurbits Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum Didymellaceae is a host of 28 not compared
Oidium sp. pm-103 Erysiphaceae is a host of 20 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
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interacts with 47 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae interacts with 123 not compared
Pruinose Squash Bee Peponapis pruinosa Apidae interacts with 75 not compared
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae interacts with 61 not compared
Angeles Striped Sweat Bee Agapostemon angelicus Halictidae interacts with 22 not compared
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is eaten by 31 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pruinose Squash Bee Peponapis pruinosa Apidae is eaten by 9 not compared
Melon aphid Aphis gossypii Aphididae is eaten by 4 not compared
Green Peach Aphid Myzus persicae Aphididae is eaten by 2 no location
cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora Aphididae is eaten by 2 no location
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Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 20 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pruinose Squash Bee Peponapis pruinosa Apidae has its flowers visited by 11 not compared
Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae has its flowers visited by 4 not compared
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae has its flowers visited by 2 not compared
Striped Cucumber Beetle Acalymma vittatum Chrysomelidae has its flowers visited by 2 not compared
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has as a parasite 7 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Parasitoid wasp Aphytis melinus Aphelinidae has as a parasite 5 no location
Red scale parasitic wasp Aphytis holoxanthus Aphelinidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Parasitic wasp Encarsia perniciosi Aphelinidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Signiphora lutea Signiphoridae has as a parasite 1 no location
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Pollination

is pollinated by 7 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Large Garden Bumblebee Bombus ruderatus Apidae is pollinated by 2 no location
Fringed Furrow Bee Lasioglossum sexstrigatum Halictidae is pollinated by 2 no location
Grote bandgroefbij Lasioglossum majus Halictidae is pollinated by 2 no location
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris Apidae is pollinated by 2 no location
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is adjacent to 6 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Cucurbit Downy Mildew Pseudoperonospora cubensis Peronosporaceae is adjacent to 2 not compared
Choanephora cucurbitarum Choanephoraceae is adjacent to 2 no location
Cucumber Fusarium Fusarium oxysporum Nectriaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Black Rot on Cucurbits Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum Didymellaceae is adjacent to 1 not compared
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has as a pathogen 3 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species. It is a narrow block, and it cannot be the only one that is read: the most frequent term in the catalogue is the one above, which declares no harm, so much of what a reader would call a pest arrives there instead.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Golovinomyces tabaci Erysiphaceae has as a pathogen 2 not compared
virus Viruses has as a pathogen 1 not compared
Pindawortelknobbelaaltje Meloidogyne marioni Meloidogynidae has as a pathogen 1 not compared
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is visited by 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Eumerus Syrphidae is visited by 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
European Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum Megachilidae is visited by 1 not compared
Golovinomyces tabaci Erysiphaceae is visited by 1 not compared
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interacts with 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
veksthusmjøldogg Golovinomyces orontii interacts with 1 no location
squash Cucurbita Cucurbitaceae interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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co-occurs ecologically with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Dark Sword-grass Agrotis ipsilon Noctuidae co-occurs ecologically with 1 not compared
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.