''Zehneria'' is a genus of flowering plants – of vines in the cucumber and gourd family (biology), family, Cucurbitaceae. It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania. The name honours Botanical illustrator, botanical artist Joseph Zehner.Flora of Australia Online.

Description

''Zehneria'' species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaf, 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 dehiscence (botany), indehiscent. The seeds are obovate, compressed and smooth.

Selected species

* ''Zehneria alba'' Ridl. * ''Zehneria baueriana'' Endl. * ''Zehneria bodinieri'' (H. Lév.) W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes * ''Zehneria brevirostris'' W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes * ''Zehneria capillacea'' (Schumacher & Thonning) Jeffrey * ''Zehneria cunninghamii'' F.Muell. * ''Zehneria ejecta'' F. M. Bailey * ''Zehneria hermaphrodita'' W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes * ''Zehneria indica'' (Lour.) Keraudren * ''Zehneria japonica'' (Thunb.) H. Y. Liu * ''Zehneria marginata'' (Blume) Keraudren * ''Zehneria marlothii'' (Cogn.) R. Fern. & A. Fern. * ''Zehneria maysorensis'' Wight. & Arn. * ''Zehneria microsperma'' Hook. f. * ''Zehneria minutiflora'' (Cogn.) C. Jeffrey * ''Zehneria mucronata'' (Blume) Miq. * ''Zehneria repanda'' (Blume) Simmons * ''Zehneria scabra'' (L.f.) Sond. * ''Zehneria scabrella'' F. Muell. * ''Zehneria sphaerosperma'' W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes * ''Zehneria tenuispica'' W. J. de Wilde & Duyfjes * ''Zehneria thwaitesii'' (Schweinf.) C. Jeffrey * ''Zehneria wallichii'' (C. B. Clarke) C. Jeffrey

Gallery

File:TimunTikus.jpg, Zehneria grown in Malaysia File:BuahTimunTikus.jpg, Close-up of a Zehneria fruit File:TimunTikusTua.jpg, Matured Zehneria is black in color

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Sources

* * * Zehneria, Cucurbitaceae genera Benincaseae {{Cucurbitales-stub