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Luffa acutangula

Luffa acutangula

Botanic Family: Cucurbitaceae
Author: (Linnaeus) Roxburgh

Common Names

Angled Loofah
Sing-kwa
Chinese Okra
Cee Gwa
Angular Loofah
Ridged Luffa
Kali Tori
Mo Kua
Mo Kwa
Loofah
Dishcloth Gourd
Ribbed Gourd
Vegetable Sponge
Geronl (Gurung)
Pate Ghiraunla (Nepali)
Silin Poloncha (Newari)
Kosh-ta-ki (Tibetan)
Strainer Vine
Guang dong si gua (Pinyin)
Jhinga (India
Bangladesh)
Pipengaille (French)
Mak Law (Laos)
Esponja
Estropajo
Bonlon or Kala-kha-we or Kha-we-yaing or Tha-but-nwe (Myanmar)
Ribbed Luffa
Ojong Bulustru or Dringi (Hindi)
Quá múòp tâu (Vietnam)
Ketola Sanding (Singapore)
Toroy
Setaputi
Turi
Angled Luffa
Sponge Gourd
Vegetable Gourd
Ribbed Loofah
Silky Gourd
Ridged Gourd
Silk Gourd
Thapwot (Myanmar)
Ronung Chrung (Cambodia)
Jalini (Sanskrit)
Pekankai (Tamil)
Liane Torchon or Eponge Végétale Torchon or Papengaye (French)
Potola (Philippines). Bath Sponge

Geographical Habitats

Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

Natural Habitats

Moist areas
hedgerows.

Flowering Times

Jun-Sep (India)

Fruiting Times

Jul to Nov Summer & Autumn

Annual herbaceous monoecious simple, bifid or trifid tendril climber or creeper with 5-furrowed glabrous stems. 5-7-palmatilobed scabrous leaves to 250mm diameter mottled with white spots on surface & hairy beneath. 50mm yellow flowers, male axillary villous racemes with 12-20 flowers, axillary racemes to 150mm long fragrant flowers yellow to 25mm long with green hairy veins, bracteole at base on inforescence, pubescent 5-parted calyx to 13mm long with sepals 10mm long, corolla with 5 hairy yellow green-veined petals to 30mm x 15mm, female flowers solitary & axillary, petals 20mm long. 500mm long glabrous club-shaped green 10-angled fruits

Further References

Sturtevant 1919
Bailey 1976
Huxley 1992
Rubatzky 1997
Manandhar 2002
FOC
FB
FI
JDH
The Plant List 2
J.S. Gamble
BF
VOPR
USNH
Botanicus
F Indochine
FOTA
GBS
Tanziman Ara
Wiart 2
Traditional Vegetables in Benin
Academia