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Ipomoea hochstetteri

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Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Ipomoea hochstetteri House
Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Ipomoea quinquefolia Hochst. ex Hallier f. var. purpurea Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Ipomoea hochstetteri House [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Ipomoea hochstetteri [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Ipomoea hochstetteri [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
I.quinquefolia Hochst. ex Hallier f.: 147 (1893a), nom illegit. non L. nee Griseb. Type as above. I.quinquefolia Hochst. ex Hallier f. var. purpurea Hallier f.: 546 (1898a). Type: Namibia, Ovamboland, between Ondonga and Uukuambi, Rautanen 177, 179, 192, 193 (Z, syn.). I.kwebensis N.E.Br.: 123 (1909). Type: as for/, quinque­folia var. purpurea.
Information
Glabrous, herbaceous annual. Stems many, twining or prostrate, up to several metres long, with long internodes, smooth or finely striate. Leaves circular in outline, palmately 5-lobed, 40-120 mm wide; lobes oblong to elliptic, apex obtuse to acuminate, mucronate, attenuate at both ends, somewhat succulent, drying papery, entire or one or both of basal lobes with a later­al lobule, central lobe up to 70 x 30 mm, lateral ones smaller; petiole pseudostipulate, up to 70 mm long. Inflorescence cymosely 1-several-flowered; peduncle thick, 20-50 mm long; bracteoles minute, deciduous; pedicels stoutish, subclavate, 5-30 mm long. Calyx muriculate, 7-8 mm long; sepals subequal, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, often reflexed in fruit. Corolla purplish mauve or white, funnel-shaped, 15-25 mm long, limb lobed and crinkly, 25 mm wide; midpetaline areas well defined. Capsule en­closed by persistent calyx, globose, shortly apiculate, 8-9 mm in diameter. Seeds depressed-ovoid, 4.5 mm long, brown, p
Habitat
Distinguished by its pseudostipulate pal-mately partite leaves, 15-25 mm long corolla and rather thick peduncles.
Use
44. Ipomoea hochstetteri House, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 18: 223 (1908) (sphalm. 'hochsteri'); A.Meeuse: t. 1189 (1955d); A.Meeuse: 762 (1957a); Verde: 126 (1963a); Roessler: 14 (1967a); Gone.: 105 (1987); A.Fabian & Germish.: 334, t. 159f (1997); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 384 (1997). Type: Ethiopia, without locality, Schimper 321 (G, K, isolecto.).
Range
Occurs from Ethiopia through Kenya, Tan­zania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana to Swaziland and the northern parts of South Africa. Its occurrence in India could not be confirmed. Grows in grass­land, often on swampy or sandy soil, also as a weed along roadsides, on waste land and in cul­tivated fields. Map 67.

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