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Astripomoea malvacea

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Name

Identification
Astrochlaena menispermoides Standl. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Astripomoea malvacea (Dammer) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
Related name
  • Ipomoea asperifolia
  • Astrochlaena malvacea
  • Astripomoea malvacea
  • Astrochlaena menispermoides
  • Astrochlaena stuhlmannii
  • Astrochlaena kaessneri
  • Convolvulus philippsiae
  • Astrochlaena involuta
  • Astrochlaena ledermannii
  • Astrochlaena magisii
  • Astrochlaena phillipsiae
  • Astrochlaena mildbraedii

Flora

Entry for ASTRIPOMOEA malvacea (Klotzsch) Meeuse [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
ASTRIPOMOEA malvacea (Klotzsch) Meeuse [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1958);
Breweria malvacea Klotzsch [family ], (1861). [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb; stems several from a woody rootstock, prostrate to erect, ± densely tomentose. Leaf-blades elliptic to broadly ovate, 2–12 x 1–9 cm, cuneate to cordate at the base, acute to rounded and mucronulate at the apex; petiole up to 7.5 cm long. Flowers 2–6 in loose axillary umbellate cymes; peduncle up to 7 cm long; pedicels up to 7 mm long; bracts elliptic to ovate, up to 11 x 7 mm. Sepals lanceolate to orbicular, 5–10 x 2.5–8 mm, acute or obtuse at the apex. Corolla entirely purple or mauve; tube 2.5–5 cm long. Capsule subglobose, 10–11 mm in diam., glabrous. Seeds 4.5–5.5 mm long, blackish brown, with small tufts of hairs around the hilum, otherwise glabrous.

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