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Zehneria maysorensis

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Wight & Arnott) Arnott

Common Names

• Niu zi gua (Pinyin)
• Satsuma-suzume-uri (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Indonesia
• Kyushu - Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• roadsides

Flowering Times

• Sep (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov

Monoecious slender herbaceous tendril vine or creeper with glabrescent stems, mucronate leaves to 70mm x 70mm, mucronate-dentate. Staminate umbels, flowers to 5mm across, 2.5mm white pistillate flowers & fruit to 14mm dia.

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• FOJ
• Jstor
• MNHN