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Ipomoea coptica

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea coptica (L.) Roth ex Roem. & Schult. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ipomoea coptica
Common name
  • sagar i surga = little sugar (DF) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • saawuu-dubuu =a thousand foot-prints; from the very deeply dissected pattern of the leaves (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nd́af a t́èk (JB) ndégèt́ fa mbé (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kléŋme (FRI; KD) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA coptica (L.) Roem. & Schultes [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 coptica (L.) Roem. & Schultes [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1819);
Convolvulus copticus L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1771). [type as above]
Information
Annual glabrous herb; stems prostrate or twining, up to 1 m or more long. Leaf-blades digitately 5-lobed, 1–7 cm long and wide; lobes up to 6 x 2 cm, deeply divided or toothed; petiole 2.5–20 mm long, with some leaf lobes at the base. Cymes 1–3-flowered; peduncle 1–3.5 cm long; pedicels 4–10 mm long; bracts lanceolate, 1.5–15 mm long. Sepals oblong or elliptic, c. 4–5 x 2 mm, echinate or with undulating crests. Corolla white, pink or white with purple throat, c. 12 mm long. Capsule globose, 6–7 mm in diam., 6-valved, glabrous. Seeds 2–3 mm long, tomentose.
Range
S3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa, tropical Asia and northern Australia.
Altitude range
25–40 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25078, 25186; Senni 512.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
The Somali plants have small bracts and represent var. coptica. Var. acuta Choisy, with larger bracts, occurs in eastern Africa and tropical Asia.

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