See text Zehneria is a genus of flowering plants – of vines in the cucumber and gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.

It contains about 35 species ranging from Africa, through Southeast Asia to Australia and Oceania.

[2] Zehneria species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines.

Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary.

The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent.