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Ipomoea gracillima

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Identification
Ipomoea minutiflora (M.Martens & Galeotti) House [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by O'Donell, 1953 Ipomoea gracillima Peter [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Staples, G., 2010
Related name
  • Ipomoea pulchella
  • Ipomoea minutiflora
  • Ipomoea palmata
  • Ipomoea gracillima

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [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 tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 15 : 12 (1961). Type : Tanganyika, Masai District : near Kwa Kuchinja, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 11194 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Convolvulus heptaphyllus Rottl. & Willd. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4 : 196 (1803), in part (epithet not available in Ipomoea). Type : India, Madras Marmelon, Rottler (B, holo., K, iso.!)
Ipomoea radicans Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 9 : 387 (1845), non Bl. (1826); nom. illegit. Type : Jamaica, Bertero (? TO, Z, iso.) [fide Hall. f.; W. T. Stearn doubts this synonymy]
Ipomoea palmata Coll. & Hemsl. var. gracillima [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in J.L.S. 28 : 96 (1890). Type : Upper Burma, Meiktila, Collett (K, iso.!)
Ipomoea gracillima (Coll. & Hemsl.) Prain [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in J. As. Soc. Bengal 63 : 111 (1894), non Peter (1891), nom. illegit.
Ipomoea pulchella [family CONVOLVULACEAE], sensu Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 177 (1905), non Roth]
Ipomoea heptaphylla [family CONVOLVULACEAE], sensu Meeuse in Bothalia 6 : 764 (1958), non (Roxb.) Voigt
Information
Glabrous herb, probably perennial; stems slender, twining. Leaf-blade orbicular in outline, palmately divided to the base, up to 5 cm. in diameter, often much less; lobes 5, elliptic, obtuse and apiculate, the outer ones often bilobed, 2.6–4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide; petiole 4.5 cm. long; pseudo-stipules present. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2–3-flowered inflorescences; peduncle 4.5 cm. long; pedicels slender 1.7 cm. long. Sepals elliptic or almost orbicular, 2–5 mm. long, 1.3–2.5 mm. wide, obtuse but mucronulate, often tuberculate. Corolla rose-purple or dark mauve, funnel-shaped, 8–17 mm. long. Capsule globose, 8 mm. in diameter. Seeds brown, subglobose, 4–5.5 mm. long, velvety-pubescent, the edges with long white cottony hairs 5–10 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. T1, 2, 5 also in India and possibly West Indies
Altitude range
1000–1200 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Shinyanga, Koritschoner 2186!TANGANYIKA Singida, Sept. 1935, B. D. Burtt 5290 ! ;TANGANYIKA Mpwapwa District Lake Kimagai, 16 June 1937, Hornby 811 !
Distribution (external)
; Sudan Republic
Mozambique
Northern
Southern Rhodesia
Angola
Transvaal

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