Luffa

From Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cucurbitaceae – plants used as vegetables in southeast Asia when young and tender and as a scrubbing sponge after maturity, called luffa, loofa, and loofah.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids - clades; Cucurbitales - order; Cucurbitaceae - family; Sicyoeae - tribe

• (genus): Luffa aegyptiaca (syn. Luffa cylindrica; smooth loofah) - type species; Luffa acutangula (angled loofah), Luffa echinata, Luffa operculata (wild loofah, sponge cucumber), Luffa saccata - species

• Luffa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Luffa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Luffa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Luffa at USDA Plants database
• Luffa at Tropicos
• Luffa at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Luffa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Luffa at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Luffa at The Plant List