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Distimake aegyptius
Distimake aegyptius
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) A.R. Simões & Staples
Common Names
- Hairy Merremia
- Koali kua hulu (Hawaiian)
- Kuahulu (Hawaiian)
- Zhang ye yu huang cao (Pinyin)
- Noyeaux (Leeward Islands)
- Liane poilue (Windward Islands)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Benin
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- French Guiana
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mali
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- shrubland
- marshland
- secondary vegetation
- deciduous woodland
- thickets
- forest
- riverside
- coastal thickets.
Flowering Times
- Oct-Feb (Nicaragua)
- Nov-May (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Oct-Mar (Nicaragua)
- Nov-May (Puerto Rico)
Herbaceous thinly yellow-hairy annual or slightly woody perennial twining vine, prostrate or with twining glabrate stems. Quinate hispidulous leaves to 140mm x 60mm. 1-10 flowered cymes of 35mm- 60mm with triangular bracts to 5mm, white flowers aging yellow, 3 outer sepals to 20mm long attaining 30mm in fruit, inner sepals glabrous & shorter, white or yellowish glabrous corolla to 35mm long. Fruit a pale brown glabrous 4-valved capsule to 20mm diameter with spines & persistent yellow-brown hairy sepals.
Invasive - pantropical weed
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Herklots 1976
- FOH
- Mobot
- NYBG
- FOC
- FB
- JDH
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- JAA
- GBS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Kew
- Standley
- Merremia