Luffa echinata

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Cucurbitales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Cucurbitales

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Sicyoeae
Genus: Luffa
Species: Luffa echinata

Name edit

Luffa echinata Roxb., 1832.

Synonyms edit

  • Heterotypic
    • Luffa bendaul Roxb., Hort. Bengal. 104. 1814.
    • Luffa bindaal Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3: 717. 1832
    • Luffa bondel Buch.-Ham. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot. (Steudel), ed. 2., 2: 77. 1841.
    • Momordica crinocarpa Fenzl ex M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 2: 59. 1846, sphalm.
    • Momordica echinocarpa Fenzl ex Hook.f., Fl. Trop. Afr. (Oliver & al.) 2: 531. 1871.
    • Momordica erinocarpa Fenzl ex Naudin, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 12: 135. 1859.

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa
      • Mauritania, Mali, Niger, NE-Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Ethiopia, S-Somalia
  • Continental: Asie
      • Pakistan (Sind, Swat), India, Bangladesh, Nepal

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

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