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Zehneria japonica

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Thunberg) H.Y. Liu

Common Names

• Ma jiao er (Pinyin)
• Dua chuot day (Vietnam)
• Suzume-uri (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jianshu
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Laos
• Malacca
• Penang
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• roadsides
• thickets
• wasteland
• forest edges
• hedgerows
• riverside
• ditches

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China)
• Jul-Dec (Thailand)
• Aug-Sep (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Oct (China)
• Jul-Dec (Thailand)

Slender annual monoecious, herbaceous simple-tendril nearly glabrous scandent climber or creeper, angular stems, denticulate mucronate rough hairy leaves vaguely pentagonal or trilobed with white spots above and hairs, glabrous beneath to 70mm x 80mm. Male axillary, sometimes terminal racemes or solitary flowers pale yellow or white flowers to 7mm across with petals to 3.5mm, calyx tube 2mm long with lobes 1mm long, corolla with 5 lobes 4mm long, female flowers axillary solitary or paired to 2.5mm diameter, segments 5mm long, glabrous orange, white or red fruit to 40mm long x 10mm

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Thai F.
• USNH
• F Indochine
• GBS
• FOJ