| Home | > | List of cultivated families | > | Cucurbitaceae | > | Luffa |
Monoecious annual herbs, prostrate or climbing. Leaves simple. Tendrils 2-6-fid. Male flowers in a raceme. Petals 5, 2-4.5 cm, entire. Stamens 5. Female flowers solitary; ovary densely puberulous; stigma 3-lobed. Mature fruit dry, brownish, opening by an apical lid, fibrous internally. Seeds elliptic, flattened. Worldwide: 7 species in the tropics Malawi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
No image yet |
| Species | Content |
| cylindrica (L.) M. Roem. | Description, Image |
| Home | > | List of cultivated families | > | Cucurbitaceae | > | Luffa |