A new taxonomic variety of Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. (Cucurbitaceae): a wild sponge gourd from Odisha, India

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Misra, Ramesh Chandra, Karmakar, Pradip (2025): A new taxonomic variety of Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. (Cucurbitaceae): a wild sponge gourd from Odisha, India. Adansonia (3) 47 (17): 311-318, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a17, URL: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/adansonia2025v47a17.pdf ABSTRACT Luffa aegyptiaca var. alba R.C.Misra, var. nov., a new taxonomic variety of wild sponge gourd, explored from Malkangiri and Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha, India, is described based on morphology.

The new variety shares morphological similarities with L. aegyptiaca Mill. var. aegyptiaca and L. acutangula Roxb. var. amara. However, it differs from the closely allied typical variety L. aegyptiaca var. aegyptiaca Mill. mainly by its puberulous and scabrous stem, smaller leaves and petiole, smaller male raceme, male and female flowers and pedicel, smaller bract, calyx tube and acuminate calyx lobe, smaller fruits and white colour fewer seeds with wingless margin.