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|accepted_name=Cucurbita palmata
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=11: 137. 1876
|year=1876
}}
|common_names=Coyote gourd or melon
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cucurbita californica
|authority=Torrey ex S. Watson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Cucurbita;Cucurbita palmata
|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 palmata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 50
|treatment_page=page 52
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; roots tuberous. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, often rooting adventitiously at nodes, to 2 m, villous-hirsute to hispid-hirsute with deflexed hairs, glabrescent and muriculate on angles in age; tendrils mostly 3(–5)-branched 1–1.5 cm above base, retrorsely hispid, gland-tipped. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole (2–)3–7 cm, densely hispid-hirsute with short, deflexed hairs mixed with pustulate hairs; blade suborbiculate to depressed-ovate, palmately 5-lobed, sinuses 1/2–2/3 to petiole, 3–7 × 4–10 cm, usually broader than long or equally so, base cordate, lobes lanceolate-acuminate to triangular or triangular-lanceolate, sometimes irregularly sublobed, margins remotely crenate to remotely serrate-crenate, surfaces appressed-hispid abaxially and muriculate, hirsute-strigillose to hispid-strigose adaxially, midvein and major veins whitish adaxially from densely hispidulous-strigillose with white hairs, eglandular. <b>Peduncles</b> in fruit shallowly 5-ribbed, not abruptly expanded at point of fruit attachment, 3–8 cm, spongy. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium cupulate to campanulate, 2–7(–20) mm; sepals linear-subulate, 2–10 mm; corolla golden yellow to yellow, tubular-campanulate, 2.5–5 cm; anther filaments glabrous; ovary densely pubescent. <b>Pepos</b> dull green, narrowly 10-striped and white-mottled, ellipsoid-globose to globose or depressed-globose, 7–10 cm, smooth. <b>Seeds</b> dull white, ovate to oblong, 9–14 mm, margins thickened-raised, surfaces smooth or slightly rough. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Apr–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Rocky lake shores, washes, stream beds and overflow channels, lava beds, roadsides, waste places, alkali plains, creosote bush scrub, saltbush scrub, grassland-saltbush scrub, annual grasslands, chaparral-desert scrub, upland desert scrub
|elevation=(-30–)200–1000(–1300) m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Some plants of <i>Cucurbita palmata</i> from Baja California and California have uniformly whitish gray, hirsute-strigillose adaxial leaf surfaces; these have been recognized as <i>C. californica</i>. Most plants from Arizona and eastern San Bernardino County, California, and some from elsewhere in Baja California and California, have the midrib and major veins whitish like those of <i>C. digitata</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cucurbita palmata
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cucurbita californica
|basionyms=
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Apr–Sep(–Oct).
|habitat=Rocky lake shores, washes, stream beds and overflow channels, lava beds, roadsides, waste places, alkali plains, creosote bush scrub, saltbush scrub, grassland-saltbush scrub, annual grasslands, chaparral-desert scrub, upland desert scrub
|elevation=(-30–)200–1000(–1300) m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=
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|genus=Cucurbita
|species=Cucurbita palmata
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