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Merremia palmata Hallier f.


Merremia palmata

Flower



Family: Convolvulaceae
Full name: Merremia palmata Hallier f.
Location: Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB)
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)

Glabrous, prostrate or occasionally twining, perennial herb. Stems herbaceous, up to 2.5 m long, sulcate and/or ribbed to almost winged. Leaves deeply palmately 5-9-lobed (lowest lobes sometimes unequally forked); lobes narrowly linear to oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronate, 1-16 mm x 5-60 mm; petiole 12-25 mm long, slender. Inflorescence solitary or occasionally cymosely 2- or 3-flowered; peduncle 10-65 mm long, slender; bracteoles small, linear; pedicels 5-30 mm long, somewhat thicker upwards. Sepals subequal, pale yellowish green, elliptic with rounded apex, glabrous, coriaceous with a membranous edge, 7-10 mm long. Corolla pale or sulphur-yellow with deep red, maroon or deep magenta centre, 20-30 mm long, broadly funnel-shaped with spreading 30-40 mm wide, faintly lobed limb; midpetaline areas sparsely pubescent towards apex. Style linear with membranous winged edges. Capsule usually distinctly exserted from calyx, globose-or ovoid-conical, 8-12 mm long and 8-10 mm wide, glabrous, pale yellowish. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa)

Glabrous, prostrate or occasionally twining perennial herb. Stems herbaceous up to 2–5 m long, sulcate and/or ribbed to almost winged. Leaf lamina deeply palmately 5–7 (9)-lobed (lower most lobes sometimes unequally forked); lobes narrowly linear to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronulate, 0.8–7 × 0.3–1.4 cm; petiole 1.2–2.5 cm long, slender. Inflorescence solitary or occasionally cymosely 2–3 flowered; peduncle 1–6.5 cm long, slender; bracts small, linear; pedicels 0.5–2.5 cm long, somewhat thicker upwards. Sepals subequal, pale yellowish green, elliptic with rounded apex, glabrous, coriaceous with a membranous edge up to 10 mm long. Corolla pale yellow or sulphur-yellow with a deep red, maroon or deep magenta centre, up to 3 cm long, broadly funnel-shaped; limb faintly lobed, spreading; midpetaline areas sparsely pubescent towards the apex. Capsule usually distinctly exserted from the calyx, globose or ovoid-conical, glabrous, pale yellowish green turning straw-coloured, valves papyraceous. Seeds dark greyish brown to black, rather dull, glabrous, nearly smooth to distinctly rugose. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca)

Perennial herb; stems glabrous, very slightly winged, trailing or twining, up to 2 m long. Leaf-blade very deeply palmately 5-lobed, with the two lowest lobes sometimes unequally forked, in outline 1–7 cm long and 1–6 cm wide, glabrous; lobes linear to lanceolate, 0.8–6 cm long, 0.1–1.6 cm wide, acute or blunt, mucronulate; petiole channelled, 0.9–2.5 cm long. Peduncle usually 1-flowered but rarely up to 6-flowered, 4.5–7.5 cm long; pedicels 0.5–3 cm long; bracts small, linear. Sepals subequal, elliptic, rounded above, 8–10 mm long and 6–8 mm wide, glabrous, with membranous edges. Corolla lemon-yellow or greenish-cream, often with a brown, claret or purple centre, funnel-shaped, (1.5–)3 cm long; midpetaline areas glabrous to strigose above. Capsule subglobose, straw-coloured, glabrous, about 10 mm in diameter. Seeds globose, 5 mm in diameter, blackish, shortly pubescent. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa)
Link(s) African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science
Kew Herbarium Catalogue
BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium
Züricher Herbarien
iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer)
iNaturalist (Namibia)
iNaturalist (southern Africa)
Flora of Zimbabwe
Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie
Tree Atlas of Namibia
Photographer: AA Dreyer
Date of photograph: 05 Apr 2009
Camera make: Canon
Camera model: PowerShot A700
Lens aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/800 s
ISO speed: -
Content last updated: 18 Apr 2024


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