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Crescentia

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Crescentia cujete

Taxonomía

Reino:
Plantae

División:
Magnoliophyta

Clase:
Magnoliopsida

Orden:
Lamiales

Familia:
Bignoniaceae

Tribu:
Crescentieae

Género:
Crescentia
L.
Especies

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Sinonimia


  • Pteromischus Pichon[1]​
[editar datos en Wikidata]

Crescentia es un género son seis especies de pequeños árboles perteneciente a la familia Bignoniaceae, nativo del sur Florida, el Caribe, sur de México, Centroamérica y norte de Sudamérica.[2]​




Fruto de Crescentia cujete




Índice





  • 1 Descripción


  • 2 Usos


  • 3 Taxonomía


  • 4 Especies seleccionadas


  • 5 Véase también


  • 6 Referencias


  • 7 Bibliografía


  • 8 Enlaces externos




Descripción


Son pequeños árboles hasta medianos poco ramificados. Hojas simples o 3-folioladas, en ramitas gruesas en fascículos alternos. Inflorescencia de 1–2 flores caulifloras, café claras; cáliz bilabiado; corola campanulada, generalmente con un pliegue transversal en la garganta, lobos deltoides, acuminados; estambres subexertos, tecas divergentes; ovario ovoide-elíptico, lepidoto, 1-locular con placentación parietal. Fruto una calabaza no pepónide, grande, más o menos globoso, indehiscente con una cáscara dura y leñosa, pulposo por dentro; semillas pequeñas, menos de 8 mm de largo y 9 mm de ancho, planas, no aladas, embebidas en la pulpa.[3]​



Usos


En Nicaragua se usan las semillas molidas para preparar una bebida, y de la cáscara se fabrican vasos, tazas y cucharas.



Taxonomía


El género fue descrito por Carlos Linneo y publicado en Species Plantarum 2: 626. 1753.[3]​ La especie tipo es:



Especies seleccionadas


  • Crescentia cujete

  • Crescentia alata


  • Crescentia linearifolia, Higuerito

  • Crescentia portoricensis


Véase también


  • Historia de la Botánica

  • Terminología descriptiva de las plantas

  • Descripción de las bignoniáceas


Referencias



  1. ↑ USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: «Copia archivada». Archivado desde el original el 31 de mayo de 2012. Consultado el 31 de mayo de 2012.  (04 September 2013)


  2. ↑ Crescentia en PlantList


  3. ↑ ab «Crescentia». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultado el 4 de septiembre de 2013. 



Bibliografía


  1. Burger, W.C. & A.H. Gentry. 2000. Family 194. Bignoniaceae. In: W. Burger (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 41: 77–161.

  2. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.

  3. Gentry, A. H. 1982. Bignoniaceae. Fl. Veracruz 24: 1–222.

  4. Gentry, A.H. 1980. Bignoniaceae–Part I (Crescentieae and Tourrettieae). Fl. Neotrop. 25(1): 1–131.

  5. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.

  6. Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.

  7. Standley, P. C. & L. O. Williams. 1974. Bignoniaceae. In Standley, P.C., Williams, L.O. & Gibson, D.N. (Eds), Flora o f Guatemala - Part X, Number 3. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(10/3): 153–232.

  8. Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel Jarquín. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: i–xlii,.


Enlaces externos


  • Germplasm Resources Information Network: Crescentia

  • Calabash tree page from killerPlants site

  • Calabash tree page from Tropilab Inc site

  • Calabash tree page from Rainforest Conservation Fund site


  • Wikimedia Commons alberga una categoría multimedia sobre Crescentia.


  • Wikispecies tiene un artículo sobre Crescentia.


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