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Convolvulus batatas

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Identification
Convolvulus batatas L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Convolvulus batatas
  • Convolvulus jalapa
  • Batatas edulis
  • Ipomoea batatas
  • Ipomoea indet.

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA batatas (L.) Lam. [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 batatas (L.) Lam. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1793);
Convolvulus batatas L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Robust herb with underground tubers; stems prostrate or ascending, often rooting at the nodes, glabrous or almost so. Leaf-blades 4–14 x 4–16 cm, truncate or cordate at the base, entire or palmately ± deeply 3–5-lobed; petiole 4–20 cm long. Cymes 1–several-flowered; peduncle 3–18 cm long; pedicels 3–12 mm long. Sepals oblong to elliptic-oblong, 7–12 x 3–5 mm, acute. Corolla violet and white, 3–4.7 cm long. Capsule ovoid. Seeds glabrous.
Range
Occasionally cultivated for its edible tubers at least in N1, S2 and S3 probably of South American origin, but now distributed throughout the tropics.
Distribution
SOMALIA Confalone 16; Paoli 424.
Notes
Batata (Som.); sweet potato (Eng.).

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