Zehneria scabra subsp. scabra

scabra: rough, referring to the leaf surface.

Prostrate or climbing herb with annual stems, up to 6 m long. Leaves more or less broadly ovate in outline, usually unlobed but occasionally 3-5-lobed, deep green and with rough hairs above, paler below, cordate at the base; margin prominently toothed. Flowers small, unisexual on different plants; male flowers in axillary clusters; female flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters, white. Fruit in clusters, spherical, 8-13 mm in diameter, hairless, bright red when ripe. See Z. scabra subsp. argyrea var. chirindensis for comparison.

Widespread in Tropical Africa, South Africa, Arabia, India, Java and the Philippines.