Zehneria mucronataMiq.

WFO wfo-0001225313 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. a Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-27 / obs. 18768151
Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. b Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18768152
Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18768154
Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18768131
Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18768135
Zehneria mucronata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18768136

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Zehneria mucronata is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Christmas I., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Caroline Is., Fiji, Marquesas, Niue, Samoa, Society Is., Tonga Bismarck ArchipelagoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth AustraliaWestern AustraliaFiji Christmas I.Caroline Is.MarquesasNiueSamoaSociety Is.Tonga
Native distribution of Zehneria mucronata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Christmas I. XMS
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
Marquesas MRQ
Niue NUE
Samoa SAM
Society Is. SCI
Tonga TON
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bryonia johnstonii Cuzent ex Seem.
  • Bryonia mucronata Blume
  • Karivia samoensis A.Gray
  • Karivia samoensis var. vitiensis A.Gray
  • Melothria carnosula Cogn.
  • Melothria grayana Cogn.
  • Melothria kelungensis (Hayata) Hayata ex Makino & Nemoto
  • Melothria lobata Merr.
  • Melothria mucronata Cogn.
  • Melothria rechingeri Cogn.
  • Melothria samoensis A.Gray
  • Neoachmandra samoensis (A.Gray) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes
  • Pilogyne samoensis (A.Gray) W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes
  • Zehneria grayana (Cogn.) Fosberg & Sachet
  • Zehneria grayana var. vitiensis (A.Gray) Fosberg & Sachet
  • Zehneria kelungensis Hayata
  • Zehneria samoensis (A.Gray) Fosberg & Sachet

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.