Merremia hederacea (Burm.F.) Hallier F.

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Merremia

Characteristics

A twining or prostrate herb; the prostrate specimens rooting at the nodes or sometimes at the internodes. Stems slender, smooth or minutely tuberculate, glabrous or sparsely hirsute, especially at and above the nodes. Leaves ovate in outline, 1½-5 by 1¼-4 cm, broadly cordate at the base, mostly obtuse and mucronulate at the apex; margin entire or crenate to shallowly or deeply 3-lobed; surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy; petiole slender, ½-6 cm, with a few small tubercles, especially in the basal half. Peduncles thicker than the petioles, shorter than or exceeding the leaves, 1-10 cm, mostly glabrous, smooth or occasionally minutely tuberculate. Flowers one or few to several, in the latter case the first ramification of the peduncle dichasial, the subsequent ones often mono-chasial. Pedicels 2-4 mm, smooth or minutely tuberculate. Bracts narrow-obovate, mucronulate, 3 mm long, caducous. Flower-buds oblong to broadly elliptic, obtuse. Sepals glabrous or occasionally slightly pilose on the back and along the margins, concave, broadly obovate to spathulate, broadly notched at the apex, distinctly mucronulate, the mucro directed outwards; two outer sepals 3½-4 mm, inner ones to 5 mm long. Corolla campanulate, 6-10(-12) mm long, yellow, outside glabrous, inside with long hairs near the hairy base of the filaments. Ovary glabrous. Capsule broadly conical to depressed-globular, somewhat 4-angular, ca 5-6 mm high, 4-valved, the valves transversely or reticulately wrinkled, less coarsely than in M. gemella. Seeds mostly 4, short-pubescent or nearly glabrous over the whole surface, or with longer hairs at the hilum and along the edges, sometimes also on the sides (see below), 2½ mm long.
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Herbs, twining or prostrate; axial parts often minutely tuberculate. Stems glabrous or sparsely hirsute, rooting at nodes. Petiole 0.5-5 cm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade cordate-ovate, 1.5-7.5 X 1-5 cm, subglabrous to sparsely puberulent, base cordate or broadly cordate, margin entire, irregularly crenate, or 3-lobed. Inflorescences (1-) or few to many flowered, umbelliform, cymose in fruit; peduncle (0.3-)0.8-5 cm, thicker than petiole; bracts early deciduous, narrowly obovate. Pedicel 2-5 mm. Sepals broadly obovate to spatulate or oblong, reflexed in fruit, unequal; outer 2 sepals 3.5-4 mm; inner 3 ca. 5 mm, glabrous, apex emarginate and distinctly mucronate, mucro directed outward. Corolla yellow, campanulate, 6-10 mm, outside glabrous, inside villous basally. Stamens ca. as long as corolla; filaments sparsely villous basally. Ovary globose, glabrous; stigma globose. Capsule depressed globose or broadly conical, 5-6 mm, reticulate (but not coarsely) wrinkled. Seeds trigonous-globose, 2.5-3.5 mm, puberulent to glabrous or woolly along angles and at hilum. 2n = 30*.
A twining or prostrate herb; stems slender, glabrous or pubescent, often minutely tuberculate, sometimes rooting at the nodes.. Leaf-blade ovate in outline, 1.5–5 cm. long, 1.25–4 cm. wide, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, cordate at the base, entire, crenate, or shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, glabrous or sparsely hairy; petiole 0.5–6 cm. long, sparsely tuberculate.. Flowers solitary or several in lax, branched inflorescences; peduncle 1–10 cm. long, usually glabrous or minutely tuberculate; pedicels 2–4 mm. long, similar.. Sepals obovate to spathulate, outer 3.5–4 mm. long, inner up to 5 mm. long, notched at the mucronulate apex, glabrous or sparsely pilose.. Corolla yellow or white, campanulate, 6–12 mm. long, glabrous outside, pilose inside at the base.. Capsule globose or conic, somewhat 4-angled, 5–6 mm. long; valves reticulately wrinkled.. Seeds pubescent or glabrous, 2.5 mm. long.
Flowers solitary or several in lax, branched inflorescences; peduncle 1–7 cm. long, thicker than the petioles, usually glabrous or minutely tuberculate; pedicels 1·2–8 mm., similar; bracts narrow-obovate, mucronulate, 3 mm. long, caducous.
A herb. It can be twining or lie along the ground. The stems form roots at the nodes. The leaves are heart shaped or oval and 2-8 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They can have 3 lobes. The flowers can occur as few or many in a group.
Sepals obovate to spathulate, glabrous or occasionally slightly pilose on the reverse along the margins, concave, broadly notched at the apex, distinctly mucronulate, outer ones 3.5–4 mm. long, inner ones up to 5 mm. long.
Leaf lamina ovate, 1·5–5 × 1·2–3 cm., broadly crenate, or shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, glabrous or sparsely hairy; petiole 0·5–3 cm. long, slender, sparsely tuberculate, especially in the basal half.
Corolla yellow or white, campanulate, 5–12 mm. long, glabrous outside, pilose inside with long hairs near the hairy base of the filaments.
Stems slender, glabrous or pubescent, smooth or minutely tuberculate, sometimes rooting at the nodes.
Capsule globose or broadly conical, obscurely 4-angled; valves reticulately wrinkled.
A nearly glabrous twiner and climber, the stems often red-purple-tinged
Seeds more or less pubescent.
A twining or prostrate herb.
Rather small yellow flowers.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in scrub and grassy roadsides between 100-800 m above sea level in southern China. In Yunnan.
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Thickets, open grasslands, and on sandbanks, at elevations from sea-level up to 250 metres.
In thickets, in open grasslands, and on sand-banks, from sea-level to 50 m.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses. A poultice of the leaves, with turmeric and broken rice, is used upon chapped hands and feet. Animals eat the plant; even if given nothing else, may thrive on it ( BURKILL A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula 1935 ).
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The seeds are eaten raw and roasted.
Uses animal food medicinal social use
Edible leaves seeds
Therapeutic use Chafing (unspecified), Chafe (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Merremia hederacea unspecified picture

Distribution

Merremia hederacea world distribution map, present in Angola, Australia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Algeria, Ethiopia, Micronesia (Federated States of), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guam, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mozambique, Mauritania, Martinique, Mauritius, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Sudan, Senegal, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Viet Nam, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:270531-1
WFO ID wfo-0001296686
COL ID 3ZWKW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 448239
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Synonyms

Merremia hederacea Evolvulus hederaceus Merremia convolvulacea Lepistemon muricatus Convolvulus flavus Convolvulus lapathifolius

Lower taxons

Merremia hederacea f. hederacea