Galapagos Species Database
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Distimake aegyptius
Campanilla, gloria de la mañana peluda, Hairy merremia, hairy morning glory, hairy woodrose.
Vine, 1-4m long, leaves palmately 5-foliolate, white campanulate flowers. With brownish fruits and seeds (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Common in open and shrubby or forested areas (Wiggin and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Distimake
Species
aegyptius
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Merremia aegyptia (L.) Urb.; Batatas pentaphylla (L.) Choisy, Ipomoea pentaphylla Jacq. fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America, Tropical Africa (POWO, 2023).
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Simões, A. R. Culham, A. & Carine, M. (2015) Resolving the unresolved tribe: a molecular phylogenetic framework for the Merremieae (Convolvulaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 179: 374–387.
- Simões, A. R. Staples, G. (2017) Dissolution of Convolvulaceae tribe Merremieae and a new classification of the constituent genera. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 183(4): 561–586. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/box007
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"Galapagos Species Database, Distimake aegyptius", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24988. Accessed 15 August 2026.