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MERREMIA kentrocaulos (C.B.Cl.) Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
MERREMIA kentrocaulos (C.B.Cl.) Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 103 (1905); F.W.T.A. 2 : 212 (1931); Meeuse in Bothalia 6 : 704 (1958). Type : Ethiopia, by R. Takkaze, Schimper 800 (G, K, iso.!.)
Information
Glabrous woody perennial; stems twining, usually muriculate. Leaf-blade palmately divided to 0.5–1 cm. from the base, in outline 8–15 cm. long and wide; lobes 5–7, elliptic, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire or minutely crenulate or deeply pinnatifid; petiole 3.5–7.5 cm. long, often muriculate. Peduncle often muriculate, several-flowered; pedicels about 2.5 cm. long. Sepals oblong, 2–3 cm. long, 1.6 cm. wide, obtuse or acute, enlarging in fruit. Corolla sulphur-yellow or white, reddish at the base, funnel-shaped, up to 5.5 cm. long; lobes bluntly triangular. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, 4-valved, 1.2–1.6 cm. long. Seeds black, 6–8 mm. long, minutely hairy.
Range
DISTR. (of species as a whole).
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Rhodesia
South Africa
India
MERREMIA kentrocaulos (C.B.Cl.) Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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