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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Luffa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Luffa

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Cucurbitanae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 4. 1994.       Ordo  Cucurbitales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.       Subordo  Cucurbitineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 190. Mai 1898.       Familia  Cucurbitaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 393. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Cucumbers, Gourds, Watermelon       Genus  Luffa Mill. common name: luffa

Named members of the Genus Luffa

1	Species  acutangula (L.) Roxb. common name: sinkwa towelsponge, ridged luffa
2	Species  aegyptiaca P. Mill. common name: sponge gourd, smooth luffa
3	Species  cylindrica (L.) M. Roemer syn. Luffa aegyptiaca common name: loofah, si gua luo  (Chinese)
4	Species  operculata (L.) Cogn. common name: luffa

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.