"Cucurbita " was formally described in a way that meets the requirements of modern botanical nomenclature by Linnaeus in his " Genera Plantarum ", the fifth edition of 1754 in conjunction with the 1753 first edition of " Species Plantarum " . " Cucurbita pepo " is the type species of the genus.
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Until recently, the earliest known depictions of this genus in Europe was of " Cucurbita pepo " in " De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes " in 1542 by the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, but in 1992, two paintings, one of " C . pepo " and one of " C . maxima ", painted between 1515 and 1518, were identified in festoons at Villa Farnesina in Rome.
