Luffa aegyptiaca - Loofah - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Cucurbitales 12 Family Cucurbitaceae 9 Tribe Sicyoeae 4 Genus Luffa 1

Luffa aegyptiaca

Introduced

Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. Species

Loofah

Introduced climber species. Cultivated only.

Other common names

Plant Sponge en, Luffa Sponge en, Native Towel-gourd en, Smooth Luffa en, Sponge Gourd en, Wild Pumpkin en, Dishcloth Gourd en, Dishrag Gourd en, Rag Gourd en, Si Gua zh, Smooth Loofah en, Vegetable-sponge en, மெழுகு பீர்க்கங்காய் ta, 丝瓜 zh, 香瓜 zh.

Distribution

American Samoa, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.