Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1977 |
Authors: | Gunn |
Journal: | Economic Botany |
Volume: | 31 |
Pagination: | 237-252 |
Keywords: | descriptions, dispersal, distribution, ethnobotany, Geo, Merremia, synonyms |
Abstract: | Merremia discoidesperma (Donn. Sm.) O'Donell (Mary's Bean) is a rarely collected and inadequately described high climbing woody liana of Chiapas, Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Hispaniola; and Cuba. There is only one record of this species being cultivated and this is from Guanajuato, Mexico in 1894, though seeds are used in folk remedies. ... |
Alternate Journal: | Econ. Bot. |