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Luffa acutangula - Jaalini

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Identification
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Leaves pale green, roundish, palmately 5-7-lobed, 15-20 cm across, glabrous; petiole 8-12 cm long. Probracts fleshy with 3-10, glistening glands on upper surface, 3-7 mm long, 2-4 mm broad.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|Axillary|Yellow|Flowers pale yellow, pedicellate, c. 4.5 cm across. Male raceme 10-15 cm long, erect, axillary 10-20-flowered, female flowers solitary in same axil as males. Calyx tube pentagonal, slightly hairy, lobes equal to slightly longer than tube. Petals obcordate, c. 2 cm long, 2-2.5 cm broad, emarginate or not. Stamens 3, filaments c. 4 mm long. Ovary 10-angled. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Gourd|(10-) 15-30 (-45) cm long, 6-10 cm in diameter||10-angled. Seeds black, 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm broad, rugose, emarginate.||}}
===Other features===
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