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Ipomoea sepiaria

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea britteniana Rendle [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Ipomoea sepiaria Roxb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
Related name
  • Convolvulus elongatus
  • Ipomoea sepiaria
  • Convolvulus diversifolius
  • Ipomoea maxima
  • Ipomoea diversifolia
  • Batatas abyssinica
  • Ipomoea hellebarda
  • Ipomoea britteniana
  • Convolvulus striatus
Common name
  • odumace (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb. [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 sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1824).
Information
Perennial herb; stems trailing or climbing, up to several m long, pilose to glabrous. Leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, 1–12 x 1–9.3 cm, truncate to hastate or sagittate at the base, acute at the apex, glabrous except for puberulous margins; petiole 1–4 cm long. Cymes few–many-flowered, rather dense; peduncle 1.5–12(–23) cm long; pedicels 0.7–1.2 cm long. Sepals elliptic-oblong to ovate, 4–8 mm long, obtuse to subacute, glabrous. Corolla pink to almost white, sometimes with purple throat, 2–6 cm long, narrow. Capsule globose, glabrous, 4–7 mm in diam. Seeds c. 3 mm long, densely tomentose.
Range
S2, 3 widespread in tropical Africa, and through tropical Asia to Taiwan and northern Australia.
Altitude range
20–40 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming & Deshmukh JESS/86/105, 157; Ciferri 74.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Notes
Bar-baraajis (Som.).

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