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The genus Luffa is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Luffa

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Luffa cylindrica (L.) M.Roem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Luffa operculata (L.) Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Luffa sepium (G.Mey.) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 60 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Luffa. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Luffa. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 60 species names for the genus Luffa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	6.7%
◕	Synonym	23	38.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	33	55.0%

All names

The status of the 70 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Luffa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	5.7%
◕	Synonym	33	47.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	33	47.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 60 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Luffa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	4	23	0	0	27	45.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	33	33	55.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Luffa, are as follows: