Merremia palmata Hallier f.
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Hwali River bridge
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Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
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Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
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Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
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By road from Main Camp to Sinamatella, Hwange NP
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Mazunga north of Beitbridge.
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By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
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Along Bulawayo-Matobo road
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Tshabalala Nature Reserve,Bulawayo
Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)
Synonyms:
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Common names:
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Morning-glory (English)
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Frequency:
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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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. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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palmata: palmate, like a hand |
Habitat:
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In dry open deciduous woodland and along roadsides, mostly in sandy soils. |
Flowering time: | Oct - Mar |
Worldwide distribution:
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Tropical East Africa, Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Also in India. |
Botswana distribution:
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N,SE |
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Spot characters:
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Literature:
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Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 41 - 42.
Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 158. (Includes a picture).
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 37.
Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 51.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2024).
Flora of Botswana: Species information: Merremia palmata. https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147370, retrieved 25 April 2024
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