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Distimake cissoides
Distimake cissoides
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Lamarck) A.R. Simões & Staples
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amapá
- Bahia
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Pará - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- scrubland
- coastal thickets
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial herbaceous pubescent or glabrous twiner or trailer with pubescent to glabrous scabrous stems with black dots. Quinate leaves, mucronate dentate leaflets, glabrous above, pubescent or glabrous beneath, downy petiole, largest leaflet to 40mm x 10mm. Axillary several-flowered cymes with bracts to 15mm x 1mm, creamy-white occasionally pink 25mm long flowers with purple centre, pilose sepals to 15mm+, corolla to 30mm long. 3-4-valved globose glabrous capsule to 10mm diameter with persistent calyx,
Invasive, naturalised
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- GBS
- FOPE
- Kew
- Standley