Details for: PI 3982, Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Origin:

Collected – Al Qāhirah, Egypt

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

28 Dec 1899

PI Assigned:

1900

Inventory Volume:

8
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Origin:

Collected – Al Qāhirah, Egypt

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

28 Dec 1899

PI Assigned:

1900

Source History

Collected

Al Qāhirah, Egypt

Collector(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.

Genus:

Luffa

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Sicyoeae

Nomen number:

22788

Place of publication:

Gard. dict. ed. 8: Luffa. 1768

Verified:

06/12/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cucurbita luffa hort.
Luffa cylindrica M. Roem.
Luffa pentandra Roxb.
Momordica cylindrica L.
Momordica luffa L.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	dishrag gourd		1	Heiser, C. B. & E. L. Schilling. 1990. The genus Luffa: a problem in phytogeography. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 123, 327.
English	loofah		1	Heiser, C. B. & E. L. Schilling. 1990. The genus Luffa: a problem in phytogeography. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 123, 327.
English	rag gourd		1	Heiser, C. B. & E. L. Schilling. 1990. The genus Luffa: a problem in phytogeography. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 123, 327.
English	smooth loofah		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	sponge gourd		1	Heiser, C. B. & E. L. Schilling. 1990. The genus Luffa: a problem in phytogeography. In: Bates, D. M. et al., Biology and utilization of the Cucurbitaceae 123, 327.
English	vegetable-sponge	as Luffa cylindrica	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Luffa cylindrica M. Roem.
French	courge torchon		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	pétole		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Schwammgurke		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Japanese Rōmaji	hechima	as Luffa cylindrica	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan. Note: as Luffa cylindrica
Portuguese	esponja-vegetal		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	estropajo		2	Bibliograf, S. A., eds. 1964. Vox modern college Spanish & English dictionary.
Spanish	paste		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Transcribed Chinese	si gua		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean	susemioi		2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:106-107.
Urdu (Pakistan)	ghia tori	as Luffa cylindrica	2	Hamid, S. et al. 1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:99.

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 20 Feb 1997, from Luffa cylindrica M. Roem. to Luffa aegyptiaca Mill.