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|accepted_name=Merremia aegyptia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Urban
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Symb. Antill.
|place=4: 505. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Hairy wood-rose
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Ipomoea aegyptia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 162.  1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Merremia;Merremia aegyptia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Merremia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Merremia aegyptia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>usually hirsute. <b>Leaf</b> blades ± orbiculate, palmately compound, 25–150 × 25–170 mm, (3–)5(–7)-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to oblanceolate, margins dentate or entire, surfaces sparsely to densely hirsute, glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–3+-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong, 20 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface hirsute, glabrescent; corolla white, 20–40 × 20–30 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Feb.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, fields, roadsides.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Old World subtropics and tropics.
|introduced=true
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name=Merremia aegyptia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Urban
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Ipomoea aegyptia
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Feb.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, fields, roadsides.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Old World subtropics and tropics.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Symb. Antill.
|publication year=1910
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Merremia
|species=Merremia aegyptia
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