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Ipomoea acuminata

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Identification
Convolvulus roseus Miller [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Ipomoea congesta R.Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Stearn,W.T.,
Related name
  • Ipomoea acuminata
  • Convolvulus coelestis
  • Convolvulus roseus
  • Ipomoea sanguinea
  • Ipomoea insularis
  • Ipomoea indica
  • Convolvulus acuminatus
  • Ipomoea tenuirostris
  • Pharbitis insularis
  • Ipomoea congesta
Common name
  • morning glory., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

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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