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Merremia xanthophylla

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Identification
Merremia pes-draconis Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Merremia xanthophylla Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Merremia pes-draconis
  • Ipomoea xanthophylla
  • convolvulus sp.
  • ipomoea xanthophylla
  • merremia xanthophylla
  • Merremia xanthophylla

Flora

Entry for MERREMIA xanthophylla 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 xanthophylla Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 113.
Ipomœa xanthophylla Hochst. [family ], in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 432.
Information
Stems prostrate or climbing, herbaceous, subcompressed and angular, clothed, as is the whole plant, with short yellow-brown hairs. Leaves with shallowly cordate base, reaching about 2 1/2 in. long by 2 in. broad in the lower part, pinnately 5–9-lobed; lobes acute or obtuse, the terminal above 1 in. long, the basal much the smallest, minutely hirsute on both faces; nerves light-coloured and prominent beneath; petiole 6–9 lin. long. Peduncle 1 1/4–2 in. long; cymes few-flowered, dense; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, 6 lin. long or less, subfoliaceous, hiding the base of the sepals. Pedicels 1 1/2–3 lin. long. Buds ovoid. Sepals coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, 4 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, whitish, 8 lin. long, densely covered with yellow-brown hairs in bud.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Uschan, 5000–6000 ft., Schimper, 2099; and without precise locality, Schimper, 432!

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