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Merremia hederacea
Merremia hederacea
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (N.L. Burman) H .Hallier
Common Names
- Li lan wang (Pinyin)
- Hoà bîm bîm (Vietnam)
- Tahock (Cambodia)
Geographical Habitats
- Christmas Island
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caroline Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Jiangxi
- Taiwan
- Yunnan - China
- Congo
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Johor
- Kelantan
- Pahang
- Perak
- Sabah
- Sarawak
- Selangor - Malaysia
- Mali
- Mariannas
- Mascarene Islands
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Reunion
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Togo
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Scrubland
- roadsides
- grassland
- montane areas
- coastal
- wasteland
- riverside
- thickets
- gallery forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous slender glabrous twiner or prostrate herb with twining or prostrate stems, new growth rusty-pubescent, twisted slightly villous stems with tubercles. Glabrous mucronulate palmately 3-lobed leaves with sinuated edges, lateral lobes serrated 60mm x 50mm villous on nerves, upper surface strigose. Axillary glabrescent 1-few flowered corymbs or umbels to 100mm long with minute bracts to 2mm long, of 12mm yellow flowers & 8mm diameter striped red, calyx to 4mm long, coriaceous 2-3 lobed sepals, 3 external 5mm x 4mm, 2 internal sepals to 6mm x 4.2mm, bright yellow corolla 14mm x 7mm with 5 violet lines. Glabrous verrucose seed capsules to 8mm diameter with 4 longitudinal ribs.
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- NYBG
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- FS
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOMP
- Flora Malesiana
- JAA
- GBS
- Kew
- Merremia