Merremia gemella (Choisy) Hallier F.

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Merremia

Characteristics

Herbs, twining or prostrate; axial parts smooth, appressed yellowish pubescent. Stems often rooting at nodes and internodes. Petiole 1.5-6 cm, rarely minutely tuberculate; leaf blade often ovate, 2.5-6.5 X 1.5-4.3 cm, glabrous or short pilose, base broadly cordate, proximal margin entire, undulate or coarsely crenate, sometimes 3-lobed, apex ± attenuate, mucronulate. Inflorescences umbelliform or forked with short racemelike branches, few flowered; peduncle 2.5-10 cm; bracts early deciduous, minute. Pedicel 3-6 mm. Sepals broadly obovate to ± circular, ± unequal, margin scarious, emarginate, slightly mucronulate or not, slightly enlarged in fruit; outer 2 abaxially ± pilose, 4-6 mm; inner 3 subglabrous, 6-7 mm. Corolla yellow, campanulate to funnelform, 1.5-2 cm, midpetaline bands dark, glabrous outside; limb shallowly 5-lobed; lobes emarginate and mucronulate. Filaments pubescent basally. Ovary glabrous. Capsule depressed-globose, ca. 7 mm, coarsely wrinkled. Seeds trigonous, dark gray or brownish puberulent. 2n = 58.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Merremia gemella world distribution map, present in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Guam, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:270519-1
WFO ID wfo-0001299014
COL ID 3ZWKJ
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Synonyms

Convolvulus gemellus Ipomoea gemella Merremia gemella

Lower taxons

Merremia gemella var. gemella