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Published In: Genera Plantarum (Endlicher) 18: 1403. 1841. (Gen. Pl.) Name publication detail
 

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Contributor Text: DANIEL F. AUSTIN
Contributor Institution: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
General/Distribution: Several authors (e.g. Clarke in Hook f., l.c. 196, R.R. Stewart l.c. 574) have included the species of this genus within Ipomoea. There is good basis for keeping these separate (Austin, l.c. 158.) Records indicate 4 species in Pakistan.

 

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Climbers, usually herbaceous, sometimes woody. Leaves entire, lobed or palmately compound with 3-7 leaflets, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers solitary and axillary, in few-flowered dichasia or sub-umbellate. Sepals sub-equal, oblong to elliptic. Corolla campanulate, white or yellow, some with purple centers. Anthers spirally twisted with complete dehiscence, the pollen 3-colpate or rarely pantocolpate. Stigmas globose or bi-globose. Fruit capsular, longitudinally dehiscent by 4-6 valves or irregularly. Seeds glabrous or pubescent.
 

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1.Leaves entire, crenate or at most 3-lobed. Corolla 6-12 mm long
Merremia hederacea
1.Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed to palmately compound. Corolla 1.5-5 cm long
2.Leaves palmately compound, with 5 entire leaflets
Merremia aegyptia
2.Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed or sometimes nearly divided to the base, but not palmately compound
3.Leaf segments coarsely dentate to crenate to sub-entire. Peduncles hirsute. Sepals 18-25 mm long. Corolla 3-4.5 cm long, white with a red or purple center
Merremia dissecta
3.Leaf segments mostly entire. Peduncles glabrous. Sepals 7-8 mm long. Corolla 1.5-3 cm long, cream or yellow
Merremia palmata
 
 
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