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Distribution : Western Australia, Northern 
Territory, Queensland; also Malesia. 
Note: An earlier but invalid combination for 
Merremia quinata was cited by Ooststroom 
(1948) referring to Nova Guinea , n.s. 5: 24; 
however, this was never published. 
11. * Merremia quinquefolia (L.) Hallier 
f., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 552 (1893); Ipomoea 
quinquefolia L., Sp. PI. 1: 162 (1753). Type: 
illustration in Plukenet, Phytographia , t. 167, 
fig. 6 (1692) (lecto,fide Austin (1975: 182)). 
Distribution: Queensland; native of tropical 
America, also naturalised in Africa and 
Malesia. 
12. *Merremia tuberosa (L.) Rendle, in 
W.T.Thiselton-Dyer, FI. Trop. Afr. 4(2): 104 
(1905); Ipomoea tuberosa L., Sp. PI. 160 
(1753). Type: Jamaica (lecto: LINN [Herb. 
C.Linnaeus 219.4], n.v., [(microfiche IDC 177- 
5. A123:1. 2)1 fide Austin (1975: 182)). 
Distribution: Queensland; native of tropical 
America, widely cultivated in Old World 
tropics and occasionally naturalised. 
13. Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f., 
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16: 552 (1893); Convolvulus 
umbellatus L., Sp. PI. 1: 155 (1753). Type: 
illustration in Plukenet, Phytographia , t. 167, 
fig. 1 (1692) (lecto, fide Austin (1979: 221)). 
Austrobaileya 8(1): 55-63 (2009) 
13a. *Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f. 
subsp. umbellata, Ooststr., FI. Males, ser. I, 4: 
449 (1953). 
Distribution: Northern Territory, Queensland; 
native of tropical America and west tropical 
Africa. 
13b. Merremia umbellata subsp. orientalis 
(Hallier f.) Ooststr., FI. Males, ser. I, 4: 449 
(1953); Merremia umbellata var. orientalis 
Hallier fi, Verslag Staat Lands Plantentuin 
Buitenzorg 132 (1896 ‘1895’). Type: East 
Indies, Java, Batavia, no specimen cited, fide 
Verdcourt (1963: 54). 
Convolvulus cymosus Desr., in 
J.B.A.P.Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 556 (1792); 
Ipomoea cymosa (Desr.) Roem. & Schult., 
Syst. Veg. 16 th edn, 4: 241 (1819). Type: from 
the East Indies, n.v., fide Ooststroom (1939: 
334, 341). 
Distribution: Western Australia, Northern 
Territory, Queensland; also tropical E Africa, 
S and SE Asia to Polynesia. 
Acknowledgements 
I appreciate the support provided by Gordon 
Guymer, Director of BRI, which enables me 
to continue my taxonomic research. I thank 
David Halford who is working with me on the 
preparation of an account of Merremia for the 
Flora of Australia and Will Smith (BRI) for 
the illustrations. 
Map 1. Distribution of Merremia incisa ▲, M. kimberleyensis A 
