Wild Flowering Plants
| Convolvulaceae family Merremia dissecta (Jacquin) Hallier f., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16(4-5): 552. 1893. Bas.: Convolvulus dissectus Jacquin (1767). Noyò Indigenous very common vine of open and semi-open dry and moist areas. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, Tobago, Trinidad, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. An essence made with the leaves is used to flavor cakes. Local medicinal uses |
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