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|accepted_name=Luffa aegyptiaca
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|place=8, Luffa no. 1. 1768
|year=1768
}}
|common_names=Sponge or dishcloth gourd;smooth luffa
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Momordica luffa
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 1009. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Luffa;Luffa aegyptiaca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cucurbitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Luffa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Luffa aegyptiaca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 13
|treatment_page=page 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines </b>climbing or trailing to 15 m; tendrils 3–6-branched; stems not angled, finely hairy or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2–15 cm; blade dark green, ovate-cordate, (3–)5-lobed, 6–20(–30) × 6–25 cm, lobes triangular to ovate, margins entire or sinuate to sinuate-toothed or sublobulate-dentate, apex acute-apiculate, surfaces scabrous. <b>Staminate</b> racemes (5–)15–20-flowered, 12–35 cm; peduncles and pedicels erect to spreading. <b>Flowers</b> 5–10 cm diam.; hypanthium 4–8 mm, sepals longer than tube; petals bright yellow, 25–45 mm, apex shallowly obtuse to obtuse-apiculate; stamens (3–)5; filaments 6–8 mm. <b>Pepos</b> cylindric, not angled, (6–)20–50 × (2.5–)6–10 cm. <b>Seeds</b> dull black, not beaked, 10–12 × 6–8 mm, surface smooth, glabrous, margins with wings ca. 1 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Gardens, fields, trash heaps, cultivated in home gardens, abandoned plantings
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Asia (India;Pakistan);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>The later name <i>Luffa</i> cylindrica, incorrectly attributed to (Linnaeus) M. Roemer, has been widely and erroneously applied to <i>L. aegyptiaca</i>.</p>
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name=Luffa aegyptiaca
|author=
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Momordica luffa
|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Gardens, fields, trash heaps, cultivated in home gardens, abandoned plantings
|elevation=10–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Asia (India;Pakistan);introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication year=1768
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Introduced
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|genus=Luffa
|species=Luffa aegyptiaca
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