Luffa

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Sicyoeae
Genus: Luffa
Species: L. acutangula – L. aegyptiaca – L. astorii – L. echinata – L. graveolens – L. operculata – L. sepium – L. quinquefida – L. saccata

Luffa Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4: s.p. (1754).

• Typus: Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

• Heterotypic
  • Amordica Neck., Elem. Bot. 1: 241 (1790).
  • Poppya Neck., Elem. Bot. 1: 241 (1790), nom. inval., opus utiq. oppr.
  • Trevouxia Scop., Introd. 152 (1777).
  • Trevauxia Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 2: 698 (1841), orth. var.
  • Turia Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 165 (1775).

• Luffa fricatoria Sessé & Moc., Fl. Mexic., ed. 2: 227 (1894), nom. illeg. non Donde (1878).
• Luffa tenera Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. (Royle) 219 (1833–1840).

• Miller, P. 1754. The Gardeners Dictionary. containing the methods of cultivating and improving all sorts of trees, plants, and flowers, for the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure gardens, as also those which are used in medicine : with directions for the culture of vineyards, and making of wine in England. In which likewise are included the practical parts of husbandry. Abridged. Ed. 4, Vol. 1–3 (unpaged). John & James Rivington, London. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.79061 Reference page. 

• Cogniaux, C.A. & Harms, H. 1924. Cucurbitaceae-Cucurbiteae-Cucumerinae. Das Pflanzenreich. Heft. 88 IV 275. 2: 1–246. Leipzig.
• Filipowicz, N., Schaefer, H. & Renner, S.S. 2014. Revisiting Luffa (Cucurbitaceae) 25 Years After C. Heiser: Species Boundaries and Application of Names Tested with Plastid and Nuclear DNA Sequences. Systematic Botany 39(1): 205–215. DOI: 10.1600/036364414X678215 PDF. Reference page. 

• Hassler, M. 2019. Luffa. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Luffa. Published online. Accessed: Dec 30 2019. Reference page.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Luffa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2019. Luffa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 30 Dec 2019. Reference page.

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