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2. Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hall. f. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 552. 1893. Cooke, Fl. Bomb. Pres. 2:240.1905, Duthie, Fl. Upper Ganget. Pl. 2:110.1911, van Ooststroom in van Steenis, Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4:448.1953, Jafri, Fl. Karachi 267.1966. (Fig. 7, D).
DANIEL F. AUSTIN
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Convolvulus dissectus Jacq.Ipomoea sinuata Ortega
Climbers with hebaceous stems, sparsely hirsute to glabrous. Leaves palmately divided almost to the base, the 7-9 lobes sinuate to sinuate-dentate, usually glabrous. Flowers usually solitary, occasionally cymose. Sepals oblong, 18-25 mm long, mucronate, glabrous. Corolla white with purple centre, 3-4.5 cm long. Fruit capsular, depressed-globose, 1-2 cm in diameter, subtended and partially surrounded by the calyx. Seeds black, glabrous.
Fl. Per.: May to December.
Type: Jacquin herb. (not seen).
C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Choa Saidan Shah, E. Nasir & M.A. Siddiqi 3648 (RAW). Distribution: Undoubtedly from the Americas, this species is cultivated and naturalized in Africa, Asia and Malaysia.
It is not common in Pakistan.
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