Adenia globosa is a species of flowering plant in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae.

It is native to tropical Africa, where it occurs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.

[4] This is a shrub or climbing plant with a warty trunk up to 8 meters tall when growing erect.

The alternately arranged leaves are entire and triangular in shape or divided into 3 lobes.

The fruit is a green, leathery, rounded or oval capsule up to 3 centimeters long.