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Ipomoea irwinae

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea irwinae Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt B, 1958
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  • Ipomoea irwinae
  • Ipomoea cairica

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea irwinae 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 irwinae Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 214 (1958); K.B. 15 : 9 (1961). Type : Kenya, Malindi to Mombasa road, Irwin 276 (EA, holo.!, K, iso.!)
Ipomoea palmata [family CONVOLVULACEAE], sensu Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 178 (1905) quoad Holst 3127, non Forsk.
Information
Perennial; stems twining, glabrous but minutely muriculate. Leaf-blade round in outline, biternately or pedately or palmately 7–9-lobed, up to 3.5 cm. long and 5 cm. wide; lobes linear, ± acute and aristate or mucronulate, 2.5–3 cm. long and 2–3 mm. wide; petiole muriculate, 1.5–2.5 cm. long; pseudo-stipules present. Peduncle axillary, 1–few-flowered, 0.5–1 cm. long; pedicels up to 2–4 cm. long. Sepals suborbicular or elliptic, the inner larger, not noticeably gibbous at the base, 4–6.3 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, reflexed in fruit. Corolla pink or mauve, up to 7.5 em. long. Capsule globose, about 8 mm. in diameter. Seeds subglobose-trigonous, about 4 mm. in diameter, brown with adpressed pubescence and with long white hairs on the angles. Fig. 23, p. 124.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6, 8.
Altitude range
0–500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Kibarani, 22 Aug. 1945, Jeffery 49 ! ;KENYA Mombasa District Port Tudor, MacNaughton 83 ! & Mombasa, 6 Nov. 1910, Gromier le Petit !TANGANYIKA Tanga District Bomandani, 11 km. S. of Moa, 10 Aug. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3685! & Moa, Holst 3127 ! ;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District 16 km. from Morogoro on Dar es Salaam road, July 1958, Tweedie 1592 !

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