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Luffa acutangula

Scientific Name
Luffa acutangula
Family Name
Cucurbitaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Vatakolu (Sri Lanka)
Description
A stout annual, climbing hy means of tendrils, stems 5-angled, glabrous, often scabrid.tendrils 3-fid and the young parts slightly pubescent; leaves simple, alternate, large,pale green. 6-23cm long and as broad, orbicular in outline, very cordate at base.usually more or less palmatifid, lobes acute, distantly denticulate, finely scabrous onboth sides; nerves and veins prominent beneath; petioles 1.5-6cm long. angular,slightly scabrous; male flowers many in axillary, 12-20-flowercd racemes, eachflower carrying a small, fleshy bract near the base bearing 3 or 4 large immersedglands; calyx fused at the base with the base of" the corolla to form a campanulatetube. segments 5 or ft, 9-9.5mm long, 35-4mm broad, lanceolate, hairy with orwithout immersed glands; petals 5 or 6, free on the calyx-tube, infolded, hairy on bothsides; stamens 3 or 4. epipeialous. filaments hairy; female flowers solitary in the sameaxils as the males or separate, ovary inferior. 2.5-3cm long. strongly 10-ridged, style short, thick, stigmas 3. large, bilobed: fruit 15-30cm long, clavate-oblong tapering to the base. very obtuse, smooth, longitudinally ribbed or almost winged with 10 sharp angles or ridges: seeds numerous, 1,2cm long, oblong-ovoid, much compressed, slightly corrugated on the sides and black in colour. Flowers almost all the year round. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Dropsy, diuretic, haemorrhoids, jaundice, skin diseases, purgative, conjunctivitis,snake bite, splenitis, leprosy (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Luffa acutangula (GRIN)

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