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Zehneria scabra
Zehneria scabra
- Botanic Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus f.) Sonder
Common Names
- Olesitau (Kimaasai)
- Lusoywe (Kihehe)
- Lunyanusa (Kihehe)
- Dúà chuôt (Vietnam)
- Hosogata-suzume-uri (Japan)
- Aroy Korreg Kottok (Java)
- Hampru Bogor (Java)
- Korres Koda (Java)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- China
- Congo
- Eritraea
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Kyushu - Japan
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Cape Provinces
- Free State
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Forest edge
- shrubland
- forest
- coastal
- montane areas
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous dioecious or monoecious simple tendril tuberous-rooted vine or liana with slightly pubescent grooved angled stems, coriaceous, scabrous toothed mucronate foliage to 75mm x 30mm, entire or 3-5lobed densely tomentose or glabrous beneath, dots above, terminal leaflet to 60mm x 50mm. 35mm yellowish male flowers in axillary racemes, corymbs, fascicles or umbels or 5-7 flowers, with tomentose calyx tube to 6mm long, corolla with 5 lobes 2mm long, female flowers solitary axillary, calyx to 4mm long with sepals to 0.5mm long, villose corolla 2.5mm long. 12mm orange or red fruits.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Botanicus
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Fedde
- Botanicus
- Jstor
- FOTA
- J.S. Gamble
- The Plant List 2
- BF
- F Indochine
- FOJ
- FOTA