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Merremia aegyptia
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Merremia aegyptia (L.) Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 505. 1910; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 928(652). 1923; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 268. 1989; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 477. 2009.
Ipomoea aegyptia L., Sp. Pl. 162. 1753.
Ipomoea pentaphylla (L.) Jacq., Ic. Pl. Rar. 2: 10. t. 319. 1788; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 202. 1883.
Convolvulus pentaphyllus L., Sp. Pl. (ed. 2) 223. 1762.
Batatas pentaphylla Wight, Ic. t.834.1844-45.
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Description:
Twinning, annual herbs, clothed with long scattered hairs. Leaves alternate, digitately 5-foliate; leaflets 5-10 x 2-5 cm. broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers in few flowered, lax, hairy, racemose cymes; peduncle 2.5-10 cm long; pedicel 1-4 cm long; bracts 6-8 mm long, linear. Sepals oblong, enlarged in fruits, 3 outer sepals 1.5 x 0.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, densely hairy, 2 inner ones slightly shorter, glabrous. Corolla 2.5 cm long, infundibuliform, white. Stamens 5, filaments hairy. Capsules 8 mm long, ovoid, papery, covered by silky, sericeous calyx-lobes, 4 celled, 4 valved; seeds 4, glabrous, shining.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kollam, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Waste lands, in the plains
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Distribution:
Pantropical
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Aroor
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