Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

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General Habitat:

Coastal areas and waste lands

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Habitat & Distribution:

Cultivated and escaped. Guangdong [India, Indonesia, ?Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, ?Thailand; native in North and South America].

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Cyclicity:

Flowering and fruiting: September-January

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Chemistry:

Leaf contains cyanogenetic heteroside.

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Brief:

Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber Distribution notes: Exotic

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Barcode data: Merremia dissecta:

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


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National Distribution:
United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Merremia dissecta:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Specimens with Barcodes: 5
Species With Barcodes: 1

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Global Range: Native of tropical America, now an ornamental throughout the tropics. FL to TX, GA on the Coastal Plain.

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Ipomoea coptica subsp coptica:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1

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