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Luffa Mill.

Family : CUCURBITACEAE

Protologue : Gard. Dict. Abr., ed. 4 no. 1 (1754)

Species

Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.

Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Luffa batesii C.H. Wright

Luffa caledonica Sond.

Luffa cylindrica M. Roem.

Luffa cylindrica var. agrestis Berhaut

Luffa drastica Mart.

Luffa echinata Roxb.

Luffa fluminensis Roem.

Luffa foetida Cav.

Luffa gosa Ham.

Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn.

Luffa purgans (Mart.) Mart.

Luffa scabra Schumach. & Thonn.

Luffa sphaerica Sond.

Luffa tuberosa Roxb.

Luffa variegata Cogn.

More species (12)

Status

Status for MA :

accepted (present)

Status for SA :

accepted (present)

Status for TA :

accepted (present)

Synonym(s) Heterotypic

=Amordica Neck. (1790)

=Trevouxia Scop. (1777)

Bibliography for Tropical Africa :

Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 1: 134 (1991).
Lebrun J.P. & A. Stork (2003). Annonaceae-Balanitaceae Trop. Afr. Flow. Plants (Ecol. Distr.) 1: 458
Lebrun J.P. & A. stork (2010). Buxaceae-Simaroubaceae Trop. Afr. Flow. Plants (Ecol. Distr.) 5: 386

More info on :

see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative

see under Catalogue de Madagascar

see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden

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Record n°192277 modified 2008-12-27

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