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Merremia emarginata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Burmann f.) Hallier f.

Common Names

• Shen ye shan zhu cai (Pinyin)
• Anya-myin-kwa (Myanmar)
• Kywet-na (Myanmar)
• Myinkhwa-tu (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Guangdong
• Hainan - China
• Ethiopia
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Mauritania
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Roadsides
• grassland
• forest
• woodland
• savanna

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climber or perennial glabrous prostrate herb with woody stems, glabrous or slightly pubescent stems angular at top. 3-lobed leaves 35mm x 35mm with toothed edges. 1-7 flowered axillary cymes with bracts 1mm long of yellow flowers to 9mm, calyx 4mm long, glabrous sepals, 2 coriaceous external sepals to 4.2mm, 3 internal sepals to 5mm long, yellow corolla with dark eye to 7mm long with 5 lobes. Brown-black glabrous capsule to 6mm diameter.

Further References

• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Kew
• Merremia