View source for Luffa acutangula var. acutangula

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|hierarchy=Cucurbitaceae;Luffa;Luffa acutangula;Luffa acutangula var. acutangula
|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 acutangula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Luffa acutangula var. acutangula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
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|treatment_page=page 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines </b>climbing to 10 m; tendrils mostly 3-branched; stems 5-angled, scabrous along ribs. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 8–12 cm; blade light green, suborbiculate, shallowly 5–7-lobed, 15–20 × 13–20 cm, lobes suborbiculate to broadly ovate, oblong-ovate, oblong-triangular, or depressed-ovate, margins irregularly and coarsely dentate, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous. <b>Staminate</b> racemes 10–20-flowered, 10–15 cm; peduncles and pedicels erect to spreading. <b>Flowers</b> 4–5 cm diam.; hypanthium 5–10 mm, sepals equaling to slightly longer than tube; petals pale yellow, 20–25 mm, apex truncate to shallowly emarginate; stamens 3; filaments 4 mm. <b>Pepos</b> narrowly clavate, 10-angled, (10–)15–30(–45) × 5–8 cm. <b>Seeds</b> black, beaked, 10–12 × 6–8 mm, surfaces rugose, glabrous, beak margins obscurely winged. <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=10–200 m
|distribution=La.;Va.;Asia (Pakistan);introduced also in West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
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|family=Cucurbitaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Gardens, fields, trash heaps, cultivated in home gardens, abandoned plantings
|elevation=10–200 m
|distribution=La.;Va.;Asia (Pakistan);introduced also in West Indies;Central America;South America;elsewhere in Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
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|genus=Luffa
|species=Luffa acutangula
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