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Ipomoea grantii

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea grantii Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ipomoea bullata
  • Ipomoea grantii

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea grantii Oliv. [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 grantii Oliv. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in T.L.S. 29 : 116, t. 80 (1875); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 185 (1905). Type : Uganda, Bunyoro, Speke & Grant (K, holo.!)
Ipomoea eminii Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 150 (1893). Tanganyika, Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4603 (B, syn. †)
Ipomoea grantii Hall.f. var. palmati-pinnata [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 28 : 51 (1899); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 185 (1905); T.T.C.L. : 170 (1949). Type : as I. eminii Hall. f.
Information
Stout liane; stems angular, pubescent or glabrescent, twining, up to 9 m. long. Leaf-blade ovate, slightly cordate, entire or slightly lobed to deeply pinnately or subpalmately divided into 5–11 lobes, 7.5–16 cm. long, 7.5–14(–30) cm. wide, green and glabrous above, with mottled white pubescence below, mainly on the veins, strongly bullate; lobes oblong, up to 8 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide; petiole 5–7.5 cm. long. Flowers several in a lax cyme; peduncles 1–2 cm. long; pedicels about 1.6 cm. long. Sepals suborbicular, truncate at the apex, finely white-tomentose or rarely glabrescent, 1.3–2 cm. long, 0.9–1.1 cm. wide. Corolla red-purple or crimson, funnel-shaped, the tube not at all slender, 7–7.5(–9) cm. long, hairy outside when in bud, later glabrescent (Fig. 22/9, p. 102). Capsule not seen.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; T1, 4 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1050–1400 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Ukerewe I., Conrads 942 !TANGANYIKA Shinyanga, Kizumbi Hill, 15 Feb. 1932, B. D. Burtt 3514 ! & Shinyanga, Koritschoner 1948 !UGANDA Mengo District Nakasongola-Nabuswera, km. 8, 4 July 1956, Langdale Brown 2151! ;UGANDA Mubende District Mubende, Singo, 9 Aug. 1932, Eggeling 479 in F.D. 815 ! & Singo, Dawe 138 !

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