Need a new page in eFI as not represented in eFI. DSRawat Pantnagar On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:22:28 AM UTC+5:30, D.S Rawat wrote: > > This cucurbit was seen along cultivated fields in Pantnagar area. > Identified as *Luffa graveolens *Roxb., it also resemble to *L. saccata*, > a new Australian species published by Telford et al. (2011) in Phytokeys > <http://phytokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1381>. Kew herbarium has a > specimen named as *L. graveolens* ( > http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K001124732) but so > are the specimens of *L.saccata* ( > http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getHomePageResults.do?homePageSearchText=Luffa+graveolens) > > (obviously, their identification is yet not corrected). > > > > Fruits in *L. graveolens* are characteristically black while in *L. > saccata* fruits are brownish. > > > > This species is not represented in eFI. > > > > Google search yield no reliable image of this species but Dr Renner in a > thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/indiantreepix/TFdE0kXJvHU> has > kindly provided a paper in which images of *Luffa* species are available > which include an immature fruit of *L. graveolens*. > > > DSRawat Pantnagar > Dr D.S.Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & > Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA > *eflorapantnagar* <https://sites.google.com/site/eflorapantnagar/home> > displaying wild flora of Pantnagar >
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