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Merremia gemella

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(N.L. Burman) H. Hallier

Common Names

• Jin hua yu huang cao (Pinyin)
• Talanuk (Philippines)
• Musakani (Hindi)
• Bangle (Lotii)

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Taiwan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• wasteland
• roadside
• riverside
• hedgerows
• grassland
• forest
• lakeside
• swamps
• flood plain

Flowering Times

• Apr (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous pubescent or glabrous radicant twiner or prostrate herb, stems clothed with grey down. Somewhat 3-lobed glabrous mucronate leaves with grey vili beneath to 120mm x 100mm with undulate or crenate margins. Axillary umbels with small bracteoles of 30mm x 20mm yellow or nearly white flowers with a mid-petal dark band, coriaceous sepals 4mm x 2.5mm, yellow 5-lobed corolla to 20mm long x 15mm, Glabrous wrinkled fruit capsule to 8mm diameter with persistent sepals to 7mm.

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC : Mobot
• Nombot
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FA
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• GBS
• Kew
• BTH