- Human food: potential as oil/fat (fide Hamdard 38:99. 1995)
- Human food: vegetable (from seeds fide Pl Res SEAs 8:194-195. 1993)
- Materials: fiber (of fruit for sponges fide Biol Cucurb 327. 1990; Hamdard 38:99. 1995)
- Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Hamdard 38:99. 1995)
Cultivated
(cult. throughout tropics)
Other
(origin Asia or possibly Africa)
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- Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
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- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
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- Personal Care Products Council International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI)
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Check other web resources for Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. :
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=22788. Accessed 25 April 2018.