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Ipomoea mauritiana

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea mauritiana Not on sheet. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Convolvulus not on sheet
  • Batatas paniculatus
  • Ipomoea not on sheet
  • Ipomoea paniculata
  • Ipomoea mauritiana
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  • Convolvulus paniculatus
  • Ipomoea hellebarda
  • Ipomoea digitata
Common name
  • loloa (FRI) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • baloa (B&D) niaméolui (B&D) taduéné (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yambale-kεεnda (FCD) yambe-kεεnda (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • m̀gbá-n’àlà (JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ßoore (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ba-bundε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ndσbobσgo (NWT) ndσbohande (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gia gba (Har.; JMD) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • àtẹ́wọ́ (JRA) àtẹ́wọ́ ẹdun = palm of monkey’s hand (auctt.) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Gambia) gwelling-gwelling (DRR) (THE GAMBIA, FULA-PULAAR (The), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jongmuso jongo julo = slave woman’s bonds, julo: rope (Hayes) julindi-messaŋ (def.-o) = tiny fibre robe (DRR; DF) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amanin (Plumtre) dinsinkσro (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yεkε-kẻl-lε = monkey’s cassava (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM (Sherbro)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • futa-na (FCD) khabi-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU-DYALONKE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • nzansea (Plumtre) (GHANA, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bulobulu (K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • foriwuri (NWT; JMD) kσse-wure (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aba abasanité (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hele gbokpo = elephant’s convolvulus (JMD) hoke-yowo (def.-i) (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea mauritiana [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 mauritiana [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
I.digitata sensu auctt. non L.; A.Meeuse: 767 (1957a).
Information
Large, glabrous, perennial liana. Roots tuber­ous. Stems twining, rarely prostrate, hollow, becoming woody. Leaves ovate-cordate to orbicular in outline, 60-200 x 60-150 mm, base cordate or truncate, entire to shallowly lobed or palmately dissected beyond the middle; lobes 3-9, lanceolate to ovate, entire, apex acuminate to obtuse; petiole smooth or muriculate, 30-110 mm long. Peduncles terete to angular, cymose­ly branched near apex, few- to many-flowered, 25-200 mm long; pedicels 9-25 mm long. Sepals equal or outer ones shorter, all subor­bicular or outer ones narrower, obtuse, marked­ly convex, coriaceous, 6-12 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped with spreading limb, 50-60 mm long, 60-70 mm wide, tube narrow below and then widening, reddish purple or mauve with darker centre. Capsule globose or ovoid, 12-14 mm long. Seeds black, 5-7 mm long, with ± 7 mm long whitish silky hairs. Flowering time January to May.
Habitat
Distinguished by being a glabrous perennial liana with entire to palmate leaves, obtuse and suborbicular sepals and a purple or mauve corolla with the tube narrow below. Keeler & Kaul (1979: 946) studied the petiolar nectaries in /. mauritiana. The name Ipomoea digitata L., long used for this species, actually applies to a rare endemic Haitian species.
Use
49. Ipomoea mauritiana J acq., Collec­tanea austriaca ad botanicum ... 4: 216 (1791); Heine: 351 (1963); Verde: 135 (1963a); Gone.: 117 (1987); Gone.: 123 (1992); Lejoly & Lisowski: 91 (1992); Gone.: 38 (1996). Type: a plant from Mauritius cultivated at Vienna, prob­ably not preserved.
Range
Circumtropical, mostly in lowland rain forest, riverine bush, secondary woodland and swampy areas, especially in coastal parts, often on sandy soils, also along roadsides. Found along the coastal strip of KwaZulu-Natal. Map 69.

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