Distimake aegyptius(L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

hairy woodrose

WFO wfo-0001424452 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 204015913
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Augustin Soulard
fig. b Augustin Soulard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191518400
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Tiago Lubiana
fig. c Tiago Lubiana, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177607972
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. d Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174377639
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171456631
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169409642
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Oscar Gonzalez Diaz
fig. g Oscar Gonzalez Diaz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167038943
Distimake aegyptius, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. h Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167324216

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Native range 62 botanical countries

Regions where Distimake aegyptius is native: Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. AngolaBeninBurkinaCameroonChadDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEthiopiaGambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea-BissauMaliMozambiqueNigerNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSomaliaSudan-South SudanTogoZambiaZimbabweMexico GulfMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaBahamasGalápagosLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesVenezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Distimake aegyptius, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Aruba ARU
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Angola ANG AFRICA
Benin BEN
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Gambia GAM
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Mali MLI
Mozambique MOZ
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 175 in flower of 233 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Distimake aegyptius observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 175 of 233 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,251 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.4 °C 20.2 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 30.3 °C 36.7 °C
Annual rainfall 604 mm 1,029 mm 2,064 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 4 mm 38 mm 223 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,251 research-grade observations of Distimake aegyptius that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Batatas cissoides var. integrifolia Choisy
  • Batatas pentaphylla (L.) Choisy
  • Batatas pentaphylla (L.) Choisy
  • Convolvulus aegyptius (L.) L.
  • Convolvulus aphyllus Viv.
  • Convolvulus cujanensis Bowdich
  • Convolvulus guadaloupensis Steud.
  • Convolvulus munitus Wall.
  • Convolvulus nemorosus Roem. & Schult.
  • Convolvulus pentaphyllus L.
  • Ipomoea aegyptia L.
  • Ipomoea cissoides var. guadaloupensis (Steud.) House
  • Ipomoea nemorosa (Roem. & Schult.) G.Don
  • Ipomoea pilosa Cav.
  • Ipomoea polytricha Sweet
  • Ipomoea sinaloensis Brandegee
  • Ipomoea tortugensis Peter
  • Ipomoea verniciflua Meisn.
  • Merremia aegyptia (L.) Urb.
  • Merremia aegyptia var. nemorosa R.Knuth
  • Merremia pentaphylla Hallier f.
  • Merremia pentaphylla var. nemorosa (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Hallier f.
  • Milhania pentaphyla Raf.
  • Operculina aegyptia (L.) House

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol MEAE. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.