Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Luffa acutangula
Cucurbitaceae Juss.
Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. , legitimate, scientific
Roxburgh, W. (1832), Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants, by the late William Roxburgh Edn. 2, 3: 713 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Cucumis acutangulus L. legitimate
Cogniaux, C.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (1881), Cucurbitaceae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 459 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "...in Australia prope Port Darwin (Schomburgk n. 230)..."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cucumis acutangulus L. legitimate
  • APC Comment: An Asian taxon recorded by C.A.Cogniaux in A.C.P. & A.L.P.P. de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 459 (1881), but not known to occur in Australia.