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Convolvulus tenuirostris

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Identification
Ipomoea tenuirostris Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Convolvulus tenuirostris Steud. ex Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
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  • Ipomoea tenuirostris

Flora

Entry for IPOMŒA tenuirostris Choisy [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
IPOMŒA tenuirostris Choisy [family ], in DC. Prodr. ix. 379. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl .Abyss. ii. 70; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 346 and in Ann. Bot. Istit. Roma, vii. 229; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 128.
IPOMŒA acuminata Baker [family ], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 72 not of Roem. & Schult.
IPOMŒA halleriana Britt. [family ], in Journ. Bot. 1894, 170.
IPOMŒA zambesiaca Britt. [family ], l.c. 85 not of Baker.
Convolvulus tenuirostris Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 1064.
Information
Perennial Stem slender, twining, more or less densely clothed with yellowish spreading hairs. Leaves entire, cordate-ovate, acute, mucronate, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, somewhat sparsely clothed on both surfaces with short adpressed hairs; petiole hairy like the stem, 1–2 in. long. Peduncle 1–3 in. long; cymes generally dense, many-flowered, compound; pedicels short; bracts lanceolate, acute, about 1 1/2 lin. long, hairy like the sepals. Calyx densely minutely hirsute on back and margin, hairs yellowish. Sepals 4–5 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, the inner narrowly lanceolate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1 in. long, midpetaline areas very distinct, minutely hirsute, white with a purple throat. Capsule globose, glabrous, beaked with the indurated persistent style base, 3 lin. in diam. Seeds brown, minutely velvety, bearing long cottony-white hairs on the upper angles.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 846! 905! 1080! 1146! 1149! Terracciano & Pappi, 180, 1052, 1292; Ragazzi, 285;Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000–6000 ft., Whyte! Masuka Plateau, 6500–7000 ft., Whyte! Shibisa to Tshinmuza, Kirk! Blantyre, Buchanan, 107! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 394! 560!Abyssinia Nile Land 6500–7500 ft.: Memsach; near Gennia, Schimper, 1064! Tigre; Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 373! Begemeder; Anadehr, Schimper, 601! Amora Gettel, Schimper, 1467! Ankober, Roth, 420! and without precise locality, Schimper, 62! Plowden! Steudner.Somaliland Nile Land Harar, Robecchi-Bricchetti, 34.Uganda Nile Land Kavirondo; between Nandi and Kakamagas, 4000–4500 ft, and two days' march from Nandi, Whyte!British East Africa Nile Land by the River Kiroruma (Kiloluma), Gregory!

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