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Merremia dissecta

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Name

Identification
Convolvulus palmatus Mill. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier,f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ipomoea dissecta
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  • Ipomoea sinuata
  • Ipomoea unrecorded
  • Convolvulus dissectus
  • Convolvulus palmatus
  • Merremia dissecta
Common name
  • ọlubọ (Boston) (NIGERIA, IGALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MERREMIA dissecta Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
MERREMIA dissecta Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 114.
Ipomœa sinuata Ortega [family ], Decades, vii. 84; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 362; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 468.
Convolvulus dissectus Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Obs. ii. 4, t. 28; Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 171.
Information
Perennial. Stems twining, terete, more or less densely clothed with spreading yellow hairs. Leaves membranous, 3–6 in. in diam., orbicular in general outline, cut down nearly to the base into 7 lanceolate acute irregularly grossly toothed segments; petiole up to about 1 1/2 in. long, hairy. Peduncles long or short, 2–8-flowered; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels generally 1/2–1 in. long. Flower buds ovoid-conical. Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, about 9 lin. long, rigid and spreading in fruit, reaching 1 in. or more in length. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, white with a purple throat, 1 1/2–2 in. long, opening in the evening. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 lin. or more in diam. Seeds large, 3 lin. long, nearly or quite glabrous, dark coloured.
Range
Now cosmopolitan in the tropics. Probably indigenous only in America.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel, 238!

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