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Merremia pterygocaulos

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Steudel ex Choisy) Hallier f.

Common Names

• Bilingoaka
• Esopoko
• N'sopoko (Babua)
• Lonininga (Turumbu)
• Mbohaboha (Kinande)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Lakeshore
• grassland
• forest
• riverside
• gallery forest
• marshland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

Glabrous twining perennial herb or liana with winged stems. Palmately 3-lobed leaves 150mm x 150mm with mucronate segments to 80mm x 30mm. few or many-flowered cymes with bracts 2mm long, yellow, pink or white with dark purple centre flowers to 10mm x 8mm with throat to 35mm x 40mm, coriaceous sepals 8mm long, white or cream corolla with purple throat 45mm long. Brown glabrous capsule 12mm x 12mm

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• Merremia