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Zehneria mucronata

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Blume) Miquel

Common Names

• Tai wan ma jiao er (Pinyin)
• Pariagengie
• Tavivi (Fiji)
• Tahwihwi (Tahiti)
• Tawhiwhi (Tahiti)
• Hoohove or Huhue (Tahiti)

Geographical Habitats

• Christmas Island
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Western Australia - Australia
• Guangdong
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Fiji
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Marquesas Islands
• Niue
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Samoa
• Society Islands
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas
• secondary growth
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jul (Samoa)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Samoa)

Dioecious slender glabrous, herbaceous simple tendril vine with scabrous leaves with dots above, to 100mm long, with undulate, spinulose-denticulate margins. Greenish-white flowers, male flowers in racemes or fascicles of 4-8 flowers, calyx tube 4mm x 1.5mm, with teeth 1.5mm long, glabrous corolla 4.5mm x 2mm, female flowers solitary. Oblong berries to 20mm long, yellow to red when ripe,

Medicinal uses

Further References

• FOC
• NYBG
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Mobot
• JPS
• FNWNG
• GBS
• Fedde