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Zehneria bodinieri

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(H. Léveillé) W.J. de Wilde & Duyfjes

Common Names

• Niu zi gua (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Palawan - Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Evergreen forest
• disturbed areas
• forest edge
• montane roadsides
• scrubland

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (Thailand)
• Apr-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Dec (Thailand)
• Aug-Nov (China)

Annual scandent herb with simple tendrils, monoecious, axillary male cymes or raceme to 50mm long of white flowers to 2.5mm, 3mm long female flowers solitary or in an umbel, red or purple fruit 14mm diameter

Further References

• FOC
• Thai F.
• The Plant List 2