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Ipomoea curtissii

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea curtissii House [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Ipomoea ochracea (House) Stearn [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stearn,W.T.,
Related name
  • Ipomoea ochracea
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Flora

Entry for Ipomoea ochracea (House) Stearn ?var. curtissii [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 ochracea (House) Stearn ?var. curtissii [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 170 : 145 adnot. (1959). Type : West Indies, Cuba, Havana, Curtiss 562 (NY, holo., BM, iso. !)
Ipomoea curtissii House [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 18 : 250, 257 (1908)
Information
A much stouter plant than var. ochracea with thicker, yellowish, ridged woody stems and thicker leaves. Sepals more coriaceous, 7 × 3.5 mm. Seeds glabrous.
Range
DISTR. U1 naturalized in Cuba, Panama and Jamaica (see note).
Altitude range
1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Kanyangarang River, Dec. 1934, Tweedie 259!, & Kailekong, Sept. 1958, Wilson 496 !
Notes
I am not certain that the African plant is identical with the naturalized plant occurring in the New World of which the origin is not known. Dr. W. T. Stearn agrees with me that it is extremely similar but it is in the highest degree improbable that the New World introductions originated from Karamoja material.

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