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Ipomoea multisecta

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Isotype of Ipomoea multisecta Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Isotype of Ipomoea multisecta Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

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Isotype of Ipomoea multisecta Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2006 Ipomoea coptica (L.) Roth ex Roem. & Schult. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea coptica var. coptica [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)

Ipomoea coptica var. coptica [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Convolvulus copticus L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Mant. 2 : 559 (1771)

Convolvulus stipulatus Desr. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Lam., Encycl. 3 : 546 (1791). Type: Senegal (P, holo. !)

Ipomoea dissecta Willd. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Phytogr. : 5, t. 2 (1794); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 176 (1905); F.W.T.A. 2 : 218 (1931). Type : Guinea, Isert (? B, not found)

Convolvulus thonningii Schumach. & Thonn. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. : 98 (1827). Type : Ghana, Ada, Isert (C, holo.†)

Ipomoea multisecta Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Apont. : 589 (1859). Type : Angola, Loanda, Welwitsch 6253 (BM, iso. !)

Main leaf-lobes elliptic to ovate, deeply divided or toothed. Bracts small, 1.5–3 mm. long.

DISTR. U2, 3; K7; T1, 3, 4 throughout tropical Africa, South Africa, tropical Asia and northern Australia

KENYA Kwale District Mariakani, 10 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4239 & 25 June 1956, Irwin 278 ! ;KENYA Kilifi District Malindi, June 1959, Rawlins 825 !TANGANYIKA Shinyanga District near Tinde, 2 April 1945, Wallace 1226 ! ;TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Korogwe, 13 Jan. 1903, Zimmerman 170 ! ;TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Tumba to Sala, 13 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2441 !UGANDA Bunyoro District Bugungu, Bulesa (?), Jan. 1941, Purseglove 1104!;UGANDA Teso District Soroti, Kapiri ferry, 16 Sept. 1954, Lind 337 ! ;UGANDA Busoga District 5 km. N. of Nawaikoke, 15 May 1953, G. H. S. Wood 737 !