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Digital Herbaria

Merremia dissecta

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

Alamo Vine, Noyau Vine, Correhuela De Las Doce

Convolvulaceae (Morning-Glory Family)

USDA Symbol: MEDI2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N), VI (N)







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Specimen & Label Data

Merremia dissecta

Alamo Vine

Convolvulaceae

Location: SW of low-water crossing of Salado Creek at Austin Hwy, San Antonio.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Clamboring in low shrubs, full sun. In damp, alluvial creek floodplain.

Description: Trailing, clamboring vine (no tendrils). Leaves orbicular overall, but deeply cleft into 5-(mostly 7) lobes, the lobes dentate to pinnatifid. Flowers open in heat of the day only (this specimen collected in early morning). Peduncles 1-2 flowered. Corolla tubular, white limbed w/purple center.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Oct 12, 1994
Specimen number: 720

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1002
Accession Date: Jan 24, 1995
Accession Number: 78

Annotations: SCFXB (In flower & fruit) [=Ipomoea sinuta]

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