Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Use
43. Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, Hortus brittanicus, 1st edn: 287 (1827); Hallier f.: 148 (1893a); Hutch. & Dalziel: 216 (1931); Ooststr.: 542 (1940); Ooststr.: 479 (1953); A.Meeuse: 761 (1957a); Verde: 125 (1963a); Heine: 351 (1963); Gone.: 105, t. 26 (1987); Gone.: 110, t. 24 (1992); Lejoly & Lisowski: 115, t. 16 (1992); Gone.: 34, t. 9 (1996); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 383 (1997). Iconotype: illusÂtration of Convolvulus aegyptius in J.Vesling: 75, fig. s.n. (1638).
Range
Indigenous throughout Africa, also from the eastern Mediterranean region through Asia to Taiwan; naturalised elsewhere as an escape from cultivation. In southern Africa it is recordÂed from Botswana (Goncalves 1987: 105), Swaziland and the northern and eastern parts of South Africa. Found in forest, bushveld, wet grassland, at edges of rivers and lakes, also along roadsides, waste places and cultivated ground. Map 66.