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Luffa sepium
Luffa sepium
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- (G. Meyer) C.Jeffrey
Common Names
- Estropajo
- Jabonilla (Peru)
- Esponj(g)illo (Spanish)
- Pashte (Spanish)
- Sponge Gourd
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Goiás
- Minas Gerais - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Mexico
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Coastal
- forest
- swampy secondary vegetation
- damp thicket
- riverside.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous glabrous bifid tendril climber or trailer with yellow flowers to 16mm long, inflorescence to 10 flowers, male flowers in axillary corymbs, 80mm long, female flowers axillary solitary,120mm spiny green fruits with longitudinal warty lines, somewhat 5-lobed leaves, angular stems
Further References
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus