Luffa acutangulaRoxb.

sinkwa towelsponge

WFO wfo-0000358861 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-30 / obs. 166932692
Luffa acutangula, photographed by S.MORE
fig. b S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 112248213
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123593037
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123405556
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127703532
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 131506449
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130685115
Luffa acutangula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130627072

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Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cucumis acutangulus L.
  • Cucumis lineatus Bosc
  • Cucumis megacarpus G.Don
  • Cucumis operculatus Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Cucurbita acutangula (L.) Blume
  • Cucurbita campanulata D.Dietr.
  • Cucurbita umbellata J.G.Klein ex Willd.
  • Luffa acutangula var. acutangula
  • Luffa acutangula var. amara (Roxb.) C.B.Clarke
  • Luffa acutangula var. forskalii (Schweinf. ex Harms) Heiser & E.E.Schill.
  • Luffa amara Roxb.
  • Luffa cattu-picinna Ser.
  • Luffa drastica Mart.
  • Luffa fluminensis M.Roem.
  • Luffa foetida Cav.
  • Luffa forskalii Schweinf. ex Harms
  • Luffa gosa Buch.-Ham.
  • Luffa kleinii Wight & Arn.
  • Luffa plukenetiana Ser.
  • Luffa tenera Royle
  • Luffa umbellata (J.G.Klein ex Willd.) M.Roem.
  • Momordica tubiflora Wall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.