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Ipomoea oenotherae

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Identification
Ipomoea temnophylla Lebrun & Taton [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ipomoea oenotherae (Vatke) Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lejoly J. & Lisowski St., 1987
Related name
  • Ipomoea commatophylla
  • Ipomoea petunioides
  • Ipomoea temnophylla
  • Ipomoea lineariloba
  • Ipomoea cecilae
  • Ipomoea oenotherae

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA oenotherae (Vatke) Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M.A. García (Cuscuta), Sebsebe Demissew (Cladostigma, Hildebrandtia, Seddera), and M. Thulin (Astripomoea, Convolvulus, Cressa, Dichondra, Evolvulus, Hewittia, Hyalocystis, Ipomoea, Jacquemontia, Merremia, Operculina, Stictocardia, Turbina, Xenostegia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
IPOMOEA oenotherae (Vatke) Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1893);
Convolvulus oenotherae Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1882). [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb from a tuberous rootstock; stems prostrate or ascending, up to 30 cm long, densely pilose when young. Upper leaves palmately to pinnately 3–5-lobed with linear to lanceolate lobes; lower leaves up to 8 x 4 cm, mostly 2–5(–9)-lobed, ± sparsely pilose; petiole up to c. 3 cm long. Flowers solitary, subsessile or pedicel up to 12 mm long; bracts linear, up to c. 15 mm long. Sepals up to c. 12 mm long, often toothed, pilose. Corolla mauve or purple and white with darker centre, 1.4–3.2(–4) cm long, glabrous. Capsule globose, c. 6 mm in diam. Seeds densely appressed pubescent.
Range
N1
Altitude range
c. 1580 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Godding 168.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Namibia
South Africa
Notes
The single collection seen from Somalia (10º02´N, 43º02´E) has relatively large flowers and wide leaves and is var. oenotherae. Var. angustifolia (Oliv.) Verdc. occurs in Uganda and Kenya.

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