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|accepted_name=Merremia dissecta
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Hallier f.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|place=16: 552. 1893
|year=1893
|other_info_on_pub=(as disecta)
}}
|common_names=Alamo vine;noyau vine
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Convolvulus dissectus
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
|publication_title=Observ. Bot.
|publication_place=2: 4, plate 28.  1767
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ipomoea sinuata
|authority=Ortega
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Operculina dissecta
|authority=(Jacquin) House
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Merremia;Merremia dissecta
|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 dissecta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>sparsely hirsute or glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades ± polygonal, palmately (5–)7(–9)-lobed, 40–70 × 40–100 mm; lobes ± lance-elliptic, margins usually irregularly pinnati-sinuate, sometimes crenate or dentate, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b>: flowers usually solitary, rarely 2–3+-flowered cymes. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong, 18–25 mm, apex mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla white with purplish throat, 30–45 mm. <b>2n</b> = 32 (Asia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed or open sites, roadsides.
|elevation=0–700 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Merremia dissecta has been reported from Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania based on single records and/or cultivated plants; it is apparently not established in those states.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Merremia dissecta
|authority=(Jacquin) Hallier f.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ipomoea sinuata;Operculina dissecta
|basionyms=Convolvulus dissectus
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed or open sites, roadsides.
|elevation=0–700 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia;Africa;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
|publication year=1893
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=
|genus=Merremia
|species=Merremia dissecta
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