Luffa
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Description
Annual or subperennial, climbing herbs to 10 m long, leafy stem 2-5 mm diam., puberulous, late glabrescent, scabrid;
Leaves:
Inflorescences:
Flowers medium or large;
Fruit subglobose to (long-)cylindrical, smooth or ribbed (or with short spines), when ripe dry and fibrous within, dehiscing by an apical operculum.
Seeds numerous, medium-sized, compressed, (narrowly) elliptic in outline, faces smooth or rugate, margin mostly distinct, edge entire.