Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

 
  • Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
    (MORNING-GLORY FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Convolvulaceae
  • Species : Merremia dissecta
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.
  • Common name : Almovine
  • Key identification features : Twining herb. Leaves alternate, simple, spiral, petiolate and hairy. Leaf-blade wide, dissected, palmately-lobed, with dentate margin. Inflorescence a cyme. Corolla creamish-white, long, with a purple throat and funnel-shaped. Anthers whitish yellow, with filaments subequal. Ovary conical, glabrous with annular disc. Style inserted, stigma biglobose. Capsule globose, 4-seeded.
  • Habit : Climber
  • Flower, Fruit : September-March
  • Native : America
  • Comments : Common in water places, roadsides and on hedges of southern Eastern Ghats.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chittoor district (Andhra Pradesh State); Coimbatore district (Tamil Nadu State)
  • World Distribution : Introduced in tropics
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Merremia dissecta. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

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