Cucurbita lagenaria Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1010. 1753.

"Habitat in Americae riguis." RCN: 7322.

Lectotype (Jeffrey in Milne-Redhead & Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cucurbitaceae: 51. 1967): Herb. Linn. No. 1151.1 (LINN) .

Current name: Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. ( Cucurbitaceae).

Note: See Bailey (in Gentes Herb. 2: 79. 1929), who reproduced the protologue, and noted the existence of material in LINN.