Zehneria
Botanical name: Zehneria
Zehneria
Botanical name: Zehneria
Description
Zehneria species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaves are simple, dentate and usually palmately lobed. Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent. The seeds are obovate, compressed and smooth. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania. 
Species of Zehneria
Japanese wild cucumber
Japanese wild cucumber is a flowering vine that belongs to the same family as cucumber, squash, watermelon, and other gourds. And This plant can be found in fields, forests, and along roadsides, but always in moist places. It belongs to the genus of Zehneria japonica, named after the famous botanical artist Joseph Zehner.
Zehneria mucronata
Zehneria mucronata is a climbing tropical and subtropical plant that inhabits open forests and open areas up to 2600 m. The plant gets its name from the leaves ("mucronata" means "with sharp-poined tip").
Zehneria guamensis
Zehneria guamensis species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaves are simple, dentate and usually palmately lobed. Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent. The seeds are obovate, compressed and smooth. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania.
Zehneria scabra
Zehneria scabra species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaves are simple, dentate and usually palmately lobed. Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent. The seeds are obovate, compressed and smooth. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania.
Scientific Classification
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