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Convolvulus acuminatus

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Identification
Convolvulus acuminatus Vahl [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Vahl, M., Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Staples, G.W., 2004 Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. and Schult. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Urban, I., 1910 Ipomoea congesta R. Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Ooststroom, S.J. van, 1949
Related name
  • Ipomoea acuminata
  • ipomoea salzmanni
  • ipomoea austrahiana
  • Ipomoea indica
  • Convolvulus acuminatus
  • convolvulus acuminatus
  • Ipomoea nil
  • Ipomoea congesta

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA indica (Burm.) Merr. [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 indica (Burm.) Merr. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1917);
Convolvulus indicus Burm. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1755). [type as above]
IPOMOEA acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schultes [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1819);
Convolvulus acuminatus Vahl [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1794). [type as above]
Information
Morning glory (Eng.). Climbing herb up to several m long; stems pilose with retrorse hairs. Leaf-blades 3–17 x 3–16 cm, entire to deeply 3-lobed, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, appressed pilose; petiole 1.5–6(–18) cm long. Cymes few–several-flowered; peduncle 0.5–8(–20) cm long; pedicels 2–15 mm long; bracts linear to oblanceolate, 6–16 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 14–22 x 3–5 mm, pilose, at least near base. Corolla blue or purplish blue, with pale throat, 5–8.5 cm long, funnel-shaped, glabrous. Capsule globose, c. 10 mm in diam., glabrous. Seeds glabrous.
Range
Cultivated as an ornamental and locally naturalised at least in N1 (Hargeysa) pantropical.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 10728. First record for Somalia.
Notes
For the nomenclature of this species, see Fosberg in Bot. Notiser 129: 35–38 (1976).

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