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Luffa echinata

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Internal ID UUID643ff3f38bbf4055188731
Scientific name Luffa echinata
Authority Roxb.
First published in Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 , 3: 716 (1832)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Luffa bendaul Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 , 3: 717 (1832)
Luffa bondel Buch.-Ham. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 77 (1841)
Momordica erinocarpa Fenzl ex Naudin Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 4, 12: 135 (1859)
Luffa bindaal Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832 , 3: 717 (1832)

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Language Common/alternative name
English category:luffa echinata
English bitter sponge
English bristly luffa
English devadali
Malayalam ദേവതാളി
Russian Люффа колючая

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  • Africa
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • Bangladesh
      • India
      • Pakistan
      • West Himalaya

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000358863
Tropicos 50041879
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:293077-1
The Plant List kew-2338865
Open Tree Of Life 103108
NCBI Taxonomy 252535
IUCN Red List 136640609
IPNI 293077-1
GBIF 3622849
EOL 2879553
USDA GRIN 459483

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Medicinal herbs and their metabolites with biological potential to protect and combat liver toxicity and its disorders: A review Islam Shawon S, Nargis Reyda R, Qais N Heliyon 01-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10864916
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25340
PMID:38356556
Simple cryopreservation protocol for Luffa pollen: enhancing breeding efficiency Nagar A, Gowthami R, Sureja AK, Munshi AD, Verma M, Singh AK, Mallick N, Singh J, Chander S, Shankar M, Pathania P, Rajkumar S Front Plant Sci 27-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10641756
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1268726
PMID:37965035
A lexical review on Vishaghna Dravyas of Kaideva Nighantu Yadav S, Sharma A, Vishnoi R, Rani J Ayu 02-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10468017
doi:10.4103/ayu.ayu_199_22
PMID:37655171
Comparison of Phytochemical Composition and Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis of an Extract from Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I. I. Johnst and Porophyllum ruderale (Jacq.) Cass. and Biological Cytotoxic and Antiproliferative Activity In Vitro Vargas-Madriz ÁF, Luzardo-Ocampo I, Moreno-Celis U, Roldán-Padrón O, Chávez-Servín JL, Vergara-Castañeda HA, Martínez-Pacheco M, Mejía C, García-Gasca T, Kuri-García A Plants (Basel) 15-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10222540
doi:10.3390/plants12101987
PMID:37653904
A Contemporary Exploration of Traditional Indian Snake Envenomation Therapies Deshpande AM, Sastry KV, Bhise SB Trop Med Infect Dis 16-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9227218
doi:10.3390/tropicalmed7060108
PMID:35736986
Phyto-constituents profiling of Luffa echinata and in vitro assessment of antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anticancer and anti-acetylcholine esterase activities Patel SB, Ghane SG Saudi J Biol Sci 27-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8241619
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.03.050
PMID:34220238
Medicinal Plants in the Prevention and Treatment of Colon Cancer Aiello P, Sharghi M, Mansourkhani SM, Ardekan AP, Jouybari L, Daraei N, Peiro K, Mohamadian S, Rezaei M, Heidari M, Peluso I, Ghorat F, Bishayee A, Kooti W Oxid Med Cell Longev 04-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC7187726
doi:10.1155/2019/2075614
PMID:32377288
Antidiabetic Potential of Medicinal Plants and Their Active Components Salehi B, Ata A, V. Anil Kumar N, Sharopov F, Ramírez-Alarcón K, Ruiz-Ortega A, Abdulmajid Ayatollahi S, Valere Tsouh Fokou P, Kobarfard F, Amiruddin Zakaria Z, Iriti M, Taheri Y, Martorell M, Sureda A, N. Setzer W, Durazzo A, Lucarini M, Santini A, Capasso R, Adrian Ostrander E, -ur-Rahman A, Iqbal Choudhary M, C. Cho W, Sharifi-Rad J Biomolecules 30-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6843349
doi:10.3390/biom9100551
PMID:31575072
Luffa echinata Roxb. Induced Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer Cell (SW-480) in the Caspase-dependent Manner and Through a Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway Shang LH, Yu Y, Che DH, Pan B, Jin S, Zou XL Pharmacogn Mag 01-Jan-2016
PMCID:PMC4787332
doi:10.4103/0973-1296.176017
PMID:27019558
Phytoconstituents as apoptosis inducing agents: strategy to combat cancer Kumar M, Kaur V, Kumar S, Kaur S Cytotechnology 04-Aug-2015
PMCID:PMC4960184
doi:10.1007/s10616-015-9897-2
PMID:26239338
A unique nonsurgical management of internal hemorrhoids by Jīmūtaka Lepa Dongargaon TN, Emmi SV, Wali AA, Kulkarni YS Anc Sci Life 01-Jan-2014
PMCID:PMC4264307
doi:10.4103/0257-7941.144623
PMID:25538354
REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES AND COLORECTAL CANCER Sreevalsan S, Safe S Curr Colorectal Cancer Rep 01-Dec-2013
PMCID:PMC4288935
doi:10.1007/s11888-013-0190-5
PMID:25584043
The Cucurbitaceae of India: Accepted names, synonyms, geographic distribution, and information on images and DNA sequences Renner SS, Pandey AK PhytoKeys 11-Mar-2013
PMCID:PMC3652411
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.20.3948
PMID:23717193
Evolution and loss of long-fringed petals: a case study using a dated phylogeny of the snake gourds, Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) de Boer HJ, Schaefer H, Thulin M, Renner SS BMC Evol Biol 03-Jul-2012
PMCID:PMC3502538
doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-108
PMID:22759528
Sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants: Some thoughts in search for solutions Manohar PR Anc Sci Life 01-Jul-2012
PMCID:PMC3733198
doi:10.4103/0257-7941.113789
PMID:23929985

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