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Taxon:
Luffa acutangula
(L.) Roxb.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Luffa
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Sicyoeae
Nomen number:
22787
Place of publication:
Fl. ind. ed. 1832, 3:713. 1832
Verified:
05/10/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cucumis acutangulus
L.
No images
Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960-
Burkill, H. M.
The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004
Chakravarty, H. L.
1990. Cucurbits of India and their role in the development of vegetable crops. Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 1990 327.
Decker-Walters, D. S.
1999. Cucurbit, Sanskrit, and the Indo-Aryas. Econ. Bot. 53:109.
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Erhardt, W. et al.
Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
Facciola, S.
Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990
Note:
Kampong Publications
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Luffa+acutangula&quantity=1
Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
Hanelt, P., ed.
Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001
http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
Heiser, C. B. & E. L. Schilling.
1990. The genus
Luffa
: a problem in phytogeography. Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae. 1990 123.
Iwatsuki, K. et al.
Flora of Japan. 1993-
Kartesz, J. T.
A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 8:194-196.
http://proseanet.org
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
angled loofah –
Reference(s)
Chinese-okra –
Reference(s)
dishcloth gourd –
Reference(s)
ribbed gourd –
Reference(s)
ribbed loofah –
Reference(s)
ridged gourd –
Reference(s)
silky gourd –
Reference(s)
strainervine –
Reference(s)
German
gerippte Schwammgurke –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
tokado-hechima –
Reference(s)
Swedish
kantgurka –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
guang dong si gua –
Reference(s)
Transliterated Russian
ljufa –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
probably indigenous fide Burkill
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Pakistan
4
Naturalized
natzd. throughout tropics & subtropics
Native
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
(probably indigenous fide Burkill),
Pakistan
Naturalized
(natzd. throughout tropics & subtropics)
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses