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Ipomoea hindeana

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Identification
Ipomoea hindeana Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Ipomoea tenuirostris (Rendle) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
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  • Ipomoea hindeana
  • Ipomoea tenuirostris

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA tenuirostris (Rendle) Verdc. subsp. hindeana [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 tenuirostris (Rendle) Verdc. subsp. hindeana [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 203 (1958). Type : Kenya, Machakos, Hinde (BM, holo.!)
IPOMOEA hindeana Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in J.B. 39 : 13 (1901); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 149 (1905)
Information
At first a dwarf herb up to 7 cm. tall and often flowering when there are only ± 3 radical leaves and 3 peduncles; later it develops prostrate stems. Leaf-blade oblong, 2.2–4 cm. long, 0.7–1.5 cm. wide, apiculate at the apex, cordate at the base, sparsely bristly pubescent; petiole up to 2.5 cm. long. Inflorescence 1–2-flowered; peduncle 2(–4) cm. long, slender; pedicels 2 cm. long. Sepals lanceolate, 8–9 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, shortly pubescent. Corolla white, sometimes with a little purple right at the base of the tube, 2.7 cm. long.
Range
DISTR. K4, 6; T2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1200–1680 m.
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Machakos, Hinde ! ;KENYA Masai District Athi Plains, 13 Dec. 1930, Napier 574! & Athi Plains about 32 km. N. of Kajiado, 11 Dec. 1959, Verdcourt 2507 !TANGANYIKA Masai District Ardai Plains, Monduli, 26 June 1944, Greenway 6974 ! & 30 June 1945, Greenway 7512 !TANGANYIKA Arusha, Jan. 1959, Ivens 1304 ! ;TANGANYIKA Moshi District Ngare Nairobi, 14 Sept. 1954, Robson 104 !
Notes
Although typical subsp. hindeana has a very distinctive look, particularly in the texture of the leaves, the Greenway sheets are intermediate with the nominate subspecies. I. pedunculosa Chiov. (!) is perhaps this form.

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