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|accepted_name=Cucurbita digitata
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=5(6): 60. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Finger-leaf or coyote gourd
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cucurbita;Cucurbita digitata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cucurbita]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cucurbita digitata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 49, 50, 52
|treatment_page=page 51
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>perennial;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="root architecture">roots tuberous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem growth form;stem architecture;stem some measurement;stem pubescence;stem relief;stem pubescence;hair orientation;hair pubescence;hair pubescence"><b>Stems </b>usually sprawling, sometimes climbing, often rooting adventitiously at nodes, to 10 m, sparsely hirsute-strigillose with deflexed hairs to hispid-strigose or hirsute-strigose, muriculate or glabrous on ribs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="tendril architecture;tendril some measurement;tendril pubescence;tendril architecture">tendrils 2–5-branched 1–1.5 cm above base, glabrous, often gland-tipped.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="petiole atypical some measurement;petiole some measurement;petiole pubescence;petiole pubescence;petiole pubescence;hair orientation"><b>Leaves:</b> petiole 3–4 (–8) cm, hispid or hispid and hirsute, often with deflexed hairs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;sinuse length;sinuse width;petiole width;base shape;lobe shape;lobe some measurement;margin shape;margin shape;surface pubescence;midvein coloration;midvein pubescence;midvein architecture;vein size;vein coloration;vein pubescence;vein architecture;hair coloration">blade depressed-ovate to reniform, palmately 5-lobed, sinuses nearly or completely to petiole, 4–11 × 8–15 cm, usually broader than long, base cordate, lobes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2–12 cm, margins coarsely toothed or remotely sinuate-dentate to serrate, surfaces hispid to hispidulous, midvein and major veins whitish adaxially, densely hispidulous-strigillose with white hairs, eglandular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="peduncle size;peduncle texture;fruit architecture or shape"><b>Peduncles </b>in fruit shallowly 5-ribbed, not abruptly expanded at point of fruit attachment, spongy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium some measurement"><b>Flowers:</b> hypanthium cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 2.5–3 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sepal shape;sepal some measurement">sepals linear-subulate, 3–5 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla shape;corolla some measurement">corolla bright-yellow, narrowly campanulate, 4–7 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="anther-filament pubescence">anther-filaments glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ovary pubescence">ovary villous-hirsute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pepo coloration;pepo coloration;pepo coloration;pepo architecture or pubescence or relief;pepo width;pepo architecture"><b>Pepos </b>dark green with 10 whitish stripes and white mottling or yellow at maturity, globose to depressed-globose or oblong-globose, (6–) 7–9.5 cm, smooth, rind thin, hard-shelled.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed reflectance;seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape;seed some measurement;margin prominence"><b>Seeds </b>dull white, ovate, obtusely pointed, 8–11 mm, margins thickened-raised, surfaces smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="surface architecture or pubescence or relief;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Feb, Apr–)May–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Larrea desert, often with Acacia, Cercidium, and Yucca, grasslands with Atriplex, mesquite, juniper-scrub, oak savannas (rarely), canal banks, stream bottoms and sides, wash and arroyo banks, dry stream channels, alluvial plains, rocky slopes, disturbed sites, roadsides
|elevation=(100–)300–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California);Mexico (Chihuahua);Mexico (Sonora)
|discussion=<p>In Texas, Cucurbita digitata is known by a single collection, from southeastern Presidio County in 1975, along gravelly banks of Fresno Creek (M. L. Butterwick 1980).</p><!--
--><p>Leaves of juvenile plants or the first growth of the season of Cucurbita digitata produce shorter and broader lobes, but mature leaves are similar to those of C. palmata (R. S. Felger 2000). Cucurbita digitata and C. palmata intergrade where their ranges meet in southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, and northeastern Baja California; with C. cordata S. Watson and C. cylindrata L. H. Bailey of Baja California, they form a group of closely related, allopatric, mostly intergrading species (W. P. Bemis and T. W. Whitaker 1965, 1969).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cucurbita digitata
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Feb, Apr–)May–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Larrea desert, often with Acacia, Cercidium, and Yucca, grasslands with Atriplex, mesquite, juniper-scrub, oak savannas (rarely), canal banks, stream bottoms and sides, wash and arroyo banks, dry stream channels, alluvial plains, rocky slopes, disturbed sites, roadsides
|elevation=(100–)300–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Baja California);Mexico (Chihuahua);Mexico (Sonora)
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1853
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Cucurbita
|species=Cucurbita digitata
|2n chromosome quantity=40
|anther-filament pubescence=glabrous
|base shape=cordate
|blade shape=5-lobed;depressed-ovate;reniform
|corolla coloration=bright-yellow
|corolla shape=campanulate
|corolla some measurement=4cm;7cm
|fruit architecture or shape=5-ribbed
|hair coloration=white
|hair orientation=deflexed;deflexed
|hair pubescence=hirsute-strigose;hispid-strigose
|hypanthium shape=cylindric;narrowly campanulate
|hypanthium some measurement=2.5mm;3mm
|lobe shape=narrowly lanceolate;narrowly oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate
|lobe some measurement=2cm;12cm
|margin prominence=thickened-raised
|margin shape=remotely sinuate-dentate to serrate;toothed
|midvein architecture=eglandular
|midvein coloration=whitish
|midvein pubescence=hispidulous-strigillose
|ovary pubescence=villous-hirsute
|peduncle size=expanded
|peduncle texture=spongy
|pepo architecture=hard-shelled
|pepo architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|pepo coloration=yellow;white mottling;dark green
|pepo width=thin
|petiole atypical some measurement=4cm;8cm
|petiole pubescence=hirsute;hispid;hispid
|petiole some measurement=3cm;4cm
|petiole width=8cm;15cm
|root architecture=tuberous
|seed coloration=white
|seed reflectance=dull
|seed shape=pointed;ovate
|seed some measurement=8mm;11mm
|sepal shape=linear-subulate
|sepal some measurement=3mm;5mm
|sinuse length=4cm;11cm
|sinuse width=usually broader than long
|stem architecture=rooting
|stem growth form=climbing
|stem growth form or orientation=sprawling
|stem pubescence=glabrous;hirsute-strigillose
|stem relief=muriculate
|stem some measurement=0m;10m
|surface architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|surface pubescence=hispid;hispidulous
|tendril architecture=gland-tipped;2-5-branched
|tendril pubescence=glabrous
|tendril some measurement=1cm;1.5cm
|vein architecture=eglandular
|vein coloration=whitish
|vein pubescence=hispidulous-strigillose
|vein size=major
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=plant
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