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Ipomoea pes-tigridis

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea pes-tigridis L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Henry Trimen,
Related name
  • Ipomoea capitellata
  • Ipomoea pes-tigridis
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  • Ipomoea lophantha
Common name
  • ñahan (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • lahal lur (JB) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bugu mugu (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA pes-tigridis L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M.A. García (Cuscuta), Sebsebe Demissew (Cladostigma, Hildebrandtia, Seddera), and M. Thulin (Astripomoea, Convolvulus, Cressa, Dichondra, Evolvulus, Hewittia, Hyalocystis, Ipomoea, Jacquemontia, Merremia, Operculina, Stictocardia, Turbina, Xenostegia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
IPOMOEA pes-tigridis L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], -(1753).
Information
Annual herb; stems trailing or climbing, up to 1 m or more long, covered with long spreading yellowish hairs. Leaf-blades palmately 7–9-lobed, up to 10.5 x 13 cm, strigose, the lobes 1.6–7 x 0.5–2.8 cm; petiole up to 14 cm long. Cymes few-flowered, head-like; peduncle up to 15(–25) cm long; bracts leaf-like, linear to oblong, hairy. Sepals 8–10 mm long, hairy. Corolla white, pink or purple with darker throat, 3.5–5 cm long, funnel-shaped. Capsule ovoid, 6–8 mm long, glabrous. Seeds black, pubescent.
Range
S3 widespread in tropical Africa and Asia.
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/59; Scassellati 71; Tozzi 289.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Notes
Three varieties were recognized by Verdcourt in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1963), and of these var. pes-tigridis was said to occur in northern Somalia and var. longibracteata Vatke in southern Somalia. I have only seen material of I. pes-tigridis from southernmost Somalia, and it agrees well with var. pes-tigridis.

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