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Distimake dissectus
Distimake dissectus
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) A.R. Simões & Staples
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Espirito Santo
- Bahia
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Pará - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Netherland Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uruguay
- Florida
- Georgia
- Texas
- Virgin Islands - U.S.A.
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- shrubland
- tropical rain forest
- secondary vegetation
- coastal
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial semi-woody hairy twining liana or trailer with glabrous or hairy mucronate leaves silver-white 5-9 palmatilobed 150mm diameter, central lobe to 70mm x 40mm, pilose stems, petioles & peduncles. 1- several flowered cymes with 3mm long triangular bracts, of 50mm white flowers with purple or dull reddish centre, glabrous cream sepals to 30mm long, white corolla with purple throat to 50mm long, limb to 50mm long. 20mm diameter 4-valved glabrous brown fruit capsule with accrescent sepals
A known weed, pantropical, naturalised
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- Huxley 1992
- FOC
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- JAA
- GBS
- FOSEUS
- USNH
- Mobot
- SAFIO
- Kew