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Convolvulus grandiflorus

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Identification
Convolvulus grandiflorus Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Convolvulus grandiflorus Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Linné, Carl von, filius,
Related name
  • Ipomoea not on sheet
  • Ipomoea sp.
  • Convolvulus grandiflorus

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea tuba (Schlechtend.) G. Don [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
Ipomoea tuba (Schlechtend.) G. Don [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Gen. Syst. 4 : 271 (1837); van Ooststr. in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4 (4) : 487 (1953). Type : West Indies, Virgin Is., St. Thomas, C. A. Ehrenberg (HAL ?)
Convolvulus grandiflorus Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Hort. Vindob. 3 : 39, t. 69 (1776); Desr. in Lam., Encycl. 3 : 543 (1791). Type : a specimen cultivated at Vienna from seed from St. Peter’s River, Martinique, probably not preserved (W ?)
Convolvulus tuba Schlechtend. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Linnaea 6 : 735 (1831)
Calonyction grandiflorum (Jacq.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 6 : 442 (1834)
Ipomoea glaberrima Hook. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 1 : 357 (1834). Type : Seychelles, Bojer (K, lecto.!)
Ipomoea grandiflora (Jacq.) Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 153 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 190 (1905), non (L.f.) Lam. (1797); nom. illegit.
Information
A glabrous perennial herb; stems twining or prostrate, rounded or angular, often longitudinally wrinkled but otherwise smooth, ochraceous. Leaf-blade orbicular to ovate, 5–16 cm. long, 5–14 cm. wide, acuminate or cuspidate and mucronulate at the apex, deeply cordate at the base; petiole 3.5–6 (–16) cm. long. Flowers usually solitary, rarely in few-flowered cymes; peduncle 0.75–7(–12) cm. long; pedicels 1.5–3 cm. long, becoming much thickened in fruit. Sepals elliptic, subequal, 1.6–2 cm. long, 1.1–1.2 cm. wide, attaining 3 cm. in fruit, obtuse at the apex; margins hyaline. Corolla opening about midnight, white and/or pale greenish-yellow, salver-shaped or very narrowly funnel-shaped; tube 7–8.5 cm. long, 0.7 cm. in diameter; limb 2–4 cm. long, 5–6(–10) cm. wide. Capsule globose, 2–3 cm. in diameter. Seeds black, subtrigonous, ± 1 cm. long, densely short tomentose and with a narrow ridge of longer hairs ± 3–6 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K7; T6, 8; Z; P ,tropical Asia to Polynesia; also in West Indies and Florida
Altitude range
sea level
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kilifi, 5 Nov. 1945, Jeffery 381 ! & Kanamai, Dec. 1941, Bally 1894 ! & Kikambala, 20 June 1956, Irwin 260 !TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Mafia I., Kanga to Miskitini, 15 Aug. 1937, Greenway 5111 ! ;TANGANYIKA Mikindani District Rovuma Bay, Kirk !ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I. , Mfumbwe, 7 Feb. 1929, Greenway 1377!ZANZIBAR Pemba I. Mvumoni, June 1928, Vaughan 357 ! & 19 Aug. 1929, Vaughan 543 !
Distribution (external)
Ghana
Mascarene Is
Seychelles

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