Merremia palmata
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Leaf
29 Apr 2008
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Flower
05 Apr 2009
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Leaf
05 Apr 2009
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Flower
05 Apr 2009
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Flower
05 Apr 2009
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Flower
05 Apr 2009
| Family: | Convolvulaceae |
| Full name: | Merremia palmata Hallier f. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Vingerblaar-merremia |
| English common name(s): | Finger-leaved merremia, Morning glory |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Prostrate or twining perennial herb. Stems up to 2.5 m long, hairless, ribbed or almost winged. Leaves deeply palmately 5-9-lobed with lower lobes often unequally forked; lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate, up to 7 cm long, hairless. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered axillary clusters on peduncles, up to 6.5 cm long. Corolla up to 5 cm in diameter, pale yellow with a deep maroon-red centre. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
