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Ipomoea commatophylla

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Identification
Ipomoea commatophylla Steud. ex A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ipomoea polymorpha Roem. & Schult. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ipomoea commatophylla
  • Convolvulus commatophyllus
  • Ipomoea heterophylla
  • Ipomoea oenotherae
  • Ipomoea kotschyana
  • Ipomoea polymorpha

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA polymorpha Roem. & Schultes [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 polymorpha Roem. & Schultes [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Syst. 4 : 254 (1819); van Ooststr. in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4 (4) : 464, fig. 38–9 (1953). Type : Australia, Carpentaria I., R. Brown 2762 (BM, holo.!, G, K, iso.!)
IPOMOEA heterophylla R. Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Prodr. : 487 (1810); Hall.f. in E.J. 18 : 125 (1893), non Ortega (1800). Type: as I. polymorpha
IPOMOEA commatophylla A. Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2 : 65 (1851); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 139 (1905). Type : Ethiopia, near Gapdia, Schimper 783 (P, lecto.!, G, isolecto.!)
Information
Annual or biennial; stems erect or prostrate, to 0.6 m., usually shorter, hairy. Leaf-blade ovate, oblong or elliptic, subentire or coarsely, shallowly to deeply lobed, 2–4(–5) cm. long, 1–2(–4) cm. wide, pubescent; petiole up to l.5(–2.7) cm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 2–3 mm. long; bracts linear, up to 7 mm. Outer sepals pilose, with ovate-orbicular basal part which is subhyaline and coriaceous with prominent foliaceous midrib and margins and a narrow attenuate acute foliaceous apical part; basal part 6 × 4 mm. and apical part 5 × 1–1.5 mm.; inner sepals narrower. Corolla white or pink often with a darker centre, narrowly funnel-shaped, 1.4–1.6 cm. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, straw-coloured, 6.5 mm. in diameter. Seeds densely adpressed pubescent.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K3–5; T1, 4, 5
Altitude range
1000–2100 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, May 1942, Tweedie 69 !KENYA Uasin Gishu District Soy to Eldoret, Oct. 1931, Brodhurst-Hill 416 ! ;KENYA Kiambu District Thika Road, 3 June 1951, Verdcourt 517 !TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Ukerewe I., 30 Mar. 1929, Conrads 701 ! ;TANGANYIKA Singida District Iramba Plateau, May 1959, Hammond 273 ! & Singida, 16 Feb. 1957, F. G. Smith 1381 !UGANDA West Nile District Rokosa Hill, near Maracha, 6 Aug. 1953, Chancellor 114! ;UGANDA Acholi District Patiko, 26 June 1944, E. Forbes 173!UGANDA Karamoja District Morutukan, 26 May 1940, A. S. Thomas 3553 !
Distribution (external)
; Ethiopia
Eritrea
Northern Rhodesia; India
China
Malaysia
Australia

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