African Plant Database


Merremia pterygocaulos (Choisy) Hallier f.
Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
Protologue : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 552 (1893); Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 113 (1894)
Information on the genus : Merremia
Basionym : Ipomoea pterygocaulos Choisy
 
 
Status
Statuts nomenclatural : uncertain status
Status for MA : accepted (present)
Status for SA : accepted (present)
Status for TA : accepted (present)
 
Synonym(s) Homotypic
 Ipomoea pterygocaulos Choisy (1845)
 Convolvulus pterygocaulos Steud.
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Merremia pterygocaulos var. tomentosa Hallier f.
=Ipomoea tetraptera Baker (1904)
=Ipomoea petersiana Klotzsch (1861)
=Ipomoea quadrangularis Bojer ex Choisy (1845)
 
Ecology and distribution
South. Afr.
Biol./Eco : perennial-Shrub, Climber Length 1 - 3 m- Alt: 30 - 915 m. Distribution: BOT, EC, KN
Mada.
Biol./Eco : Herb; Humid, Subhumid, Dry, Subarid; ; distribution: Africa.

Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
  • (1963). Flora of Tropical East Africa Convolvulaceae: 57
  • Boudet G. & J.P. Lebrun (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. Etudes et Synthèses IEMVT 16
  • Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:195 (2012)
  • Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing

Bibliography for Southern Africa :
  • Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 4: 417 (1997).

Bibliography other :
  • Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 113 (1894)
  • Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 183: 584 (2017) 
 
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