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Ipomoea digitata

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea digitata sensu A.Meeuse [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ipomoea digitata
Common name
  • loloa (FRI) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • baloa (B&D) niaméolui (B&D) taduéné (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yambale-kεεnda (FCD) yambe-kεεnda (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • m̀gbá-n’àlà (JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ßoore (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ba-bundε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ndσbobσgo (NWT) ndσbohande (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gia gba (Har.; JMD) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • àtẹ́wọ́ (JRA) àtẹ́wọ́ ẹdun = palm of monkey’s hand (auctt.) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Gambia) gwelling-gwelling (DRR) (THE GAMBIA, FULA-PULAAR (The), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jongmuso jongo julo = slave woman’s bonds, julo: rope (Hayes) julindi-messaŋ (def.-o) = tiny fibre robe (DRR; DF) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amanin (Plumtre) dinsinkσro (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yεkε-kẻl-lε = monkey’s cassava (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM (Sherbro)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • futa-na (FCD) khabi-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU-DYALONKE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nzansea (Plumtre) (GHANA, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bulobulu (K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • foriwuri (NWT; JMD) kσse-wure (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aba abasanité (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hele gbokpo = elephant’s convolvulus (JMD) hoke-yowo (def.-i) (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq. [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 mauritiana Jacq. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Collect. 4 : 216 (1791) & in Hort. Schoenbr. 2 : 39, t. 200 (1797). Type : a plant from Mauritius cultivated at Vienna, probably not preserved.
Convolvulus paniculatus L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sp. Pl. : 156 (1753). Type : India, Malabar : illustration of Flos passionis spurius malabaricus. .. in Rheede, Hort. Malabar. 11, t. 49 (1692), (lecto.!)
Ipomoea paniculata (L.) R. Br. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Prodr.: 486 (1810), non Burm. (1768); nom. illegit.
Ipomoea eriosperma Beauv. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Oware 2 : 73, t. 105 (1819). Type : Ghana, Chama [Schama], Beauvois (G, holo.)
Ipomoea ennealoba Beauv. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Oware 2 : 69, t. 101 (1818). Type : Ghana, Chama [Schama], Beauvois (G, holo.!)
Ipomoea digitata [family CONVOLVULACEAE], sensu Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 189 (1905); F.W.T.A. 2 : 216, fig. 251 (1931); van Ooststr. in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4 (4) : 483, fig. 55 (1953); Meeuse in Bothalia 6 : 767 (1958); non L. (1759)
Information
Large, glabrous liane with tuberous roots; stems twining. Leaf-blade orbicular in outline, entire or palmately 3–9-lobed, 6–24 cm. long, 6–18 cm. wide, cordate or truncate at the base; lobes lanceolate to ovate, acuminate at the apex, entire; petiole 3–11 cm. long. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered; peduncles 2.5–20 cm. long; pedicels 0.9–2.5 cm. long; flower-buds globular. Sepals markedly convex, clasping the corolla-tube, orbicular or elliptic, 6–12 mm. long. Corolla reddish-purple, funnel-shaped, with the tube narrow below, 5–6 cm. long. Capsule ovoid, obtuse, 1.2–1.4 cm. long. Seeds 6–7 mm. long, black, covered with ± 7 mm. long silky hairs.
Range
DISTR. U1/3; K7; T8; P circumtropical but rare in eastern Africa
Altitude range
0–1050 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District 5 km. S. of Diani beach, 18 July 1961, Church 99 ! ;KENYA Kilifi District Sokoke Forest, 5 June 1960, Irwin 440 !TANGANYIKA Lindi District Mwera [Rondo] Plateau, 35 km. W. of Lindi, 22 Jan. 1935, Schlieben 5903 !UGANDA Lango/Acholi Districts between Lira and Kitgum, by R. Aswa, June 1930, Liebenberg 247 !ZANZIBAR Pemba I. , Fundo I., 20 May 1934, Vaughan 2199 !
Notes
Ekman was the first to discover that the name I. digitata L., long used for the above species, actually applies to a rare endemic Haitian species.Van Ooststroom maintains two varieties var. “ digitata ” and var. eriosperma (Beauv.) Rendle as did Rendle in the F.T.A. [sphalm. eriocarpa],

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