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Ipomoea inamoena

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Identification
Ipomoea inamoena Pilg. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ipomoea welwitschii Vatke ex Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for Ipomoea welwitschii Vatke ex Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 1, page 9, (1987) Author: Maria Leonor Gonçalves
Names
Ipomoea hystrix Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 18: 146 (1893). Type from Tanzania.
Ipomoea welwitschii var. latifolia Britten [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 32: 85 (1894).—Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 739 (1898).—Baker & Rendle in F.T.A. 4, 2: 174 (1905). Type from Angola.
Ipomoea inamoena Pilger [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 45: 221 (1910). Type from Namibia.
Ipomoea semisecta Merxm. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 43: 41 (1951). Type: Zimbabwe, Marondera, Dehn 193a (M, holotype; BR, isotype).
Ipomoea multinervia Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kew Bull. 13: 212 (1958). Type: Zambia, Nsama to Mporokoso, Bullock 1372 (K, holotype).
Ipomoea welwitschii Vatke ex Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 18: 146 (1893).—Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 739 (1898).—Rendle in Journ. Bot. 39: 57 (1901).—Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4, 2: 174 (1905).—Rendle in Journ. Bot. 46: 181 (1908).—Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 150 (1911).—Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 456 (1916).—Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 172 (1949).—Meeuse in Bothalia 6: 756 (1958).—Verdc. in Kew Bull. 13: 211 (1958); in Kew Bull. 15: 9 (1961); in F.T.E.A., Convolvulaceae: 119 (1963).—Roessler in Merxm. Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 116: 17 (1967).—Binns, H.C.L.M. 39: 40 (1968).—Jacobsen In Kirkia 9: 171 (1973). Type from Namibia.
Ipomoea aspericaulis Baker [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1894: 70 (1894). Type from Angola.
Information
Perennial herb with a woody rootstock or globose tuber as big as a cricket ball. Stems several, up to 50 cm. long, suberect or prostrate, sometimes rather stout, stiff, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Leaves often erect, glabrous or asperulous; leaf lamina linear-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, 4–22 × 0·3–4 cm., acute at the apex, usually tapering, rounded or cuneate at the base, occasionally incised or trisected, rigid, glabrous or with short bristles on the nerves and margins, often with distinct reticulate nervation; petiole stout, 5–10 mm., long, caniculate above, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered, sometimes profusely flowered when the plant is almost leafless; peduncle up to 1 cm. long, stout, glabrous; bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels subclavate up to 1·2 cm. long. Sepals subequal, lanceolate 1–1·4 cm. long, acuminate or subacute, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Corolla funnel-shaped, rose-pink or white with pink or mauve centre 5–9·5 cm. long, with distinct midpetaline areas ending in mucronate-aristate points. Capsule globose, coriaceous, apiculate, glabrous. Seeds brown shortly puberulous with a basal tuft of hairs near the hilum.
Habitat
Woodland, savanna, grassland, sandy soil
Altitude range
350–1680 m.
1680
350
Distribution
Malawi C Kasungu National Park, 1036 m., fl. & fr. 6.xii.1970, Hall-Martin 1041 (SRGH).Zimbabwe S Masvingo Distr., Great Zimbabwe National Park, fl. & fr. 10.xi.1970, Chiparawasha 141 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Mutare, S. of Circular Drive, 1097 m., fl. & fr. 22.xii.1962, Chase 7919 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Chimanimani, Dombotombo African Towship, fl. 1.i.1967, Mavi 113 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Shangani, Gwampa Forest Reserve, 914 m., fl. i.1956, Goldsmith 80/56 (K; SRGH).Zambia S Namwala, Shakalongo Plain, Kafue National Park, fl. & fr. 5.xii.1962, Mitchell 15/45 (LISC; SRGH).Zambia E Chadiza, 850 m., fl. & fr. 28.xi.1958, Robson 758 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia W Solwezi to Kansanchi Mine, c. 8 km., fl. & fr. 14.ix.1952, White 3250 (FHO; K).Mozambique T Moatize, nr. Zóbuè-Moatize Rd., 350 m., fl. & fr. 13.i.1966, Correia 430 (LISC).Zambia N Mporokoso Distr., Mporokoso-Nsama Rd., Mweru-Wa-Ntipa, 1200 m., fl. & fr. 13.xii.1960, Richards 13661 (K).Malawi N Mzimba Distr., 10 km. E. of Moambazi, 32 km. W. of main Rd., 1240 m., fl. & fr. 30.xii.1975, Pawek 10664 (K; SRGH).Zambia B Mankoya, nr. Luena R., c. 14·5 km. ESE. of Mankoya, fl. & fr. 21.xi.1959, Cookson 6715 (SRGH).Zimbabwe N Gokwe, c. 3·2 km. NW. of Gokwe, fl. & fr. 20.xi.1963, Bingham 968 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SE NW of Molepole, 1036 m., fl. & fr. 1.xii.1954, Codd 8922 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Tanzania
Angola
Namibia

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