Entry for MERREMIA Pes-Draconis 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 Pes-DraconisHallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 537.
Information
A herb densely covered except on the upper leaf-face with short yellowish spreading hairs. Stem long, probably prostrate, reaching 1 line in thickness, with internodes up to nearly 1 1/2 in. long. Leaves shortly petioled, palmately-pinnately 5-lobed up to 2 1/2 in. long; lobes linear-acute, the median several times longer than the lateral, up to 2 in. long by 2 lin. broad; lateral lobes 1–8 lin. long, conspicuously reticulately veined on the lower surface; petiole 1 1/2 lin. long. Peduncles axillary, up to 2 1/2 in. long, rigidly spreading with recurved apex; bracts rather larger, ovate-lanceolate, lowest up to 8 lin. long and half as broad. Cymes subspicate; pedicels very short. Calyx 6 lin. long; sepals ovate-elliptic, subacute, hairy, the inner shorter, glabrous. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, probably yellow, an inch long and almost as broad; midpetaline areas bearing yellow silky hairs with an apical tuft, but not well defined.
Distribution
Congo South Central Kasai district; by the Lutembue River, a tributary of the Lubudi, Descamps.
