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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC045 : Merremia aegyptia (L.) Urb. - hairy woodrose

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 334  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Merremia Dennst. ex. Endl. - woodrose
Species : Merremia aegyptia (L.) Urb. - hairy woodrose
Plant Location in Melghat : In Jarida  
Plant Category : Climbers  
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Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Egyptian Woodrose; Hairy Woodrose; Hairy Morning Glory; Hairy Merremia; Mochukkodi
 
Synonym : Ipomoea aegyptia
Convolvulus vitifolius
Distimake aegyptius
Description : Egyptian Woodrose is a twinning, annual herbs, clothed with long scattered hairs. Leaves are alternate, digitately 5-foliate. Leaflets are 5-10 x 2-5 cm, broadly lanceshaped, tapering. Flowers are borne in few flowered, lax, hairy, raceme-like cymes. Flower-cluster-stalks are 2.5-10 cm long, flower-stalk 1-4 cm long; bracts 6-8 mm long, linear. Sepals are oblong, enlarged in fruits, 3 outer sepals 1.5 x 0.5 cm, ovate-lanceshaped, densely hairy, 2 inner ones slightly shorter, hairless. Flower is 2.5 cm long, funnel-shaped, white. Stamens are 5, filaments hairy. Capsules are 8 mm long, ovoid, papery, covered by silky, silky sepals, 4 celled, 4 valved; seeds 4, hairless, shining. Egyptian Woodrose is found widely in the tropical world. In India it is mainly found in South India. Flowering: December-March.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :