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<big>''[[Merremia mammosa]]'' (Lour.) Hallier f.</big>
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:Protologue: Teysmannia 7: 164 (1897).
== Synonyms ==
''Convolvulus mammosus'' Lour. (1790), ''Ipomoea gomezii'' Clarke (1883).
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: blanar, widara upas (Javanese), hailale (Ambon)
*Malaysia: widara upas
*Philippines: angcoa
*Vietnam: bìm vú.
== Distribution ==
India, Andaman Islands, Indo-China, introduced and cultivated in Java for the edible roots, formerly also in Bali, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; locally naturalized in Madura.
== Uses ==
In Indonesia, the sap of the fresh tubers is widely drunk in affections of the throat and respiratory organs, dysentery, fever, and externally applied for snakebite, burns, fevers, dysentery, poisoning, chest and throat affections and oedema. It is mildly purgative. In Malaysia, it is often cultivated in gardens as a medicinal or for the edible tubers.
== Observations ==
A perennial, glabrous twiner, 3-6 m long, stems annual, terete, finely striate in the older parts, tubers fusiform to globose, fasciculate, 10-25 cm long, with a milky juice; leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 6-12 cm × 4.5-12 cm, base cordate, apex abruptly acuminate, margin entire, petiole 6-10 cm long; flowers 1-3 together, peduncle 3-15 cm long, bracts linear-lanceolate, caducous; flower-buds narrowly ovoid, acute, pedicel 12-15 mm long, clavate, sepals subequal, 24-30 mm long, concave, outer ones broadly ovate-elliptical, corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 7-8 cm long, white, minute glands outside, mid-petaline bands distinctly veined, base of filaments hairy, anthers spirally twisted; capsule ovoid, about 1,5 cm in diameter, enclosed by permanent calyx; seed 8 mm long, greyish to black, with long, brownish hairs along the margins. ''M. mammosa'' occurs in Java from sea-level up to 500 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
* Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials & industrial products. 11 volumes. Publications and Information Directorate, New Delhi, India.407, 647, 762, 816.
== Authors ==
Muhammad Mansur
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Merremia mammosa'' (PROSEA)}}
<big>''[[Merremia mammosa]]'' (Lour.) Hallier f.</big>
__NOTOC__
:Protologue: Teysmannia 7: 164 (1897).
== Synonyms ==
''Convolvulus mammosus'' Lour. (1790), ''Ipomoea gomezii'' Clarke (1883).
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: blanar, widara upas (Javanese), hailale (Ambon)
*Malaysia: widara upas
*Philippines: angcoa
*Vietnam: bìm vú.
== Distribution ==
India, Andaman Islands, Indo-China, introduced and cultivated in Java for the edible roots, formerly also in Bali, the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines; locally naturalized in Madura.
== Uses ==
In Indonesia, the sap of the fresh tubers is widely drunk in affections of the throat and respiratory organs, dysentery, fever, and externally applied for snakebite, burns, fevers, dysentery, poisoning, chest and throat affections and oedema. It is mildly purgative. In Malaysia, it is often cultivated in gardens as a medicinal or for the edible tubers.
== Observations ==
A perennial, glabrous twiner, 3-6 m long, stems annual, terete, finely striate in the older parts, tubers fusiform to globose, fasciculate, 10-25 cm long, with a milky juice; leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 6-12 cm × 4.5-12 cm, base cordate, apex abruptly acuminate, margin entire, petiole 6-10 cm long; flowers 1-3 together, peduncle 3-15 cm long, bracts linear-lanceolate, caducous; flower-buds narrowly ovoid, acute, pedicel 12-15 mm long, clavate, sepals subequal, 24-30 mm long, concave, outer ones broadly ovate-elliptical, corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 7-8 cm long, white, minute glands outside, mid-petaline bands distinctly veined, base of filaments hairy, anthers spirally twisted; capsule ovoid, about 1,5 cm in diameter, enclosed by permanent calyx; seed 8 mm long, greyish to black, with long, brownish hairs along the margins. ''M. mammosa'' occurs in Java from sea-level up to 500 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
* Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials & industrial products. 11 volumes. Publications and Information Directorate, New Delhi, India.407, 647, 762, 816.
== Authors ==
Muhammad Mansur
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