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Ipomoea mweroensis

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Identification
Ipomoea mweroensis Baker [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Ipomoea mombassana Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Hallier f., Ipomoea tenuirostris Steud ex Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Maria Leonor Gonçalves, Ipomoea tenuirostris Steud. ex Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Strophipomoea mweroensis Baker [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ipomoea tenuirostris
  • Strophipomoea mweroensis
  • Ipomoea mweroensis
  • Ipomoea mombassana

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea tenuirostris subsp. tenuirostris [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 tenuirostris subsp. tenuirostris [family CONVOLVULACEAE], —Verdc. in Kew Bull. 13: 203 (1958); in F.T.E.A., Convolvulaceae: 101 (1963). Type as for the species.
Ipomoea acuminata Baker [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1894: 72 (1894) nom. illegit. (Vahl) Roem. & Schultes (1819). Type: Malawi, “Zambesi Highlands”, Kirk (K, lectotype).
Ipomoea zambesiaca Britten [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 32: 85 (Mar. 1894) nom. illegit. non Baker (Feb. 1894). Type as for Ipomoea acuminata Baker.
Ipomoea halleriana Britten [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 32: 170 (1894). Type as for Ipomoea acuminata Baker.
Ipomoea mweroensis Baker [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1895: 291. Type: Zambia, Lake Mweru, Carson 23 (K, holotype).
Ipomoea gracilior Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 46: 180 (1908). Type from Uganda.
Information
Flowering on long twining stems. Leaf-blade ovate to oblong, 4–12 × 3·5–9 cm; acute, mostly more or less densely pilose. Inflorescences mostly several-flowered. Sepals pilose. Corolla usually purple, 2–4 cm long.
Habitat
Woodland, Grassland and cultivated ground
Altitude range
600–1900 m.
1900
600
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., 1300 m., fl. & fr. 10.vii.1969, Leach & Cannell 14273 (SRGH).Mozambique T Cahobra Bassa, near Meroeira, 625 m., fl. & fr. 3.ii.1973, Torre, Carvalho & Ladeira 18987 (C; LISC; LMA; MO; WAG).Malawi S Thyolo Mt., 1200 m., fl. & fr. 19.ix.1946, Brass 17649 (BM; K; SRGH).Malawi C Ntchisi Mt., 1600 m., fl. & fr. 26.vii.1946, Brass 16957 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Pungwe Valley, fl. & fr. 17.vii.1948, Chase 899 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia W Kitwe, fl. & fr. 6.viii.1969, Mutimushi 3516 (K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Milange, Chiperone Mt., 900 m., fl. & fr. 8.ii.1972, Correia & Marques 2551 (LISC).Malawi N Mzimba, Mzuzu, Marymount, fl. & fr. 1372 m., 27.vii.1972, Pawek 5539 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Bulawayo, Bellevue, fl. & fr. ix.1908, Chubb 335 (BM).Zambia N Kawambwa, fl. & fr. 7.viii.1958, Fanshawe 4670 (K).
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Sudan
Congo Republic
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Cameroun
Notes
Subsp. hindeana (Rendle) Verdc. occurs in Kenya and Tanzania; Subsp. repens in Ethiopia and Kenya.

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