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Ipomoea tenuipes

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Isotype of Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Holotype of Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Ipomoea tenuipes Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ipomoea pulchella
  • Ipomoea heptaphylla
  • Ipomoea tenuipes
  • Ipomoea palmata

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea tenuipes [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 tenuipes [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
Convolvulus heptaphyllus Rottler & Willd.: 196 (1803), pro parte (epithet not available in Ipomoea). Type: India, Madras, Marmelon, Rottler in Herb. Willdenow 3721 (B, holo.t; K, iso.). I.heptaphylla sensu A.Meeuse: 764 (1957a), non (Roxb.) Voigt.
Information
Glabrous, herbaceous, annual or perennial twiner. Stems up to at least 1 m long. Leaves pseudostipulate (pseudostipules resembling leaves but much smaller), orbicular in outline, 20-60 mm in diameter, deeply palmately 5-lobed, outer lobes usually bilobed; lobes elliptic to lanceolate, entire, apex obtuse, apiculate, base narrowed; petiole 40-50 mm long. Flowers axil­lary, solitary or cymosely 2- or 3-flowered; peduncles 40-50 mm long, very slender; bracte-oles minute; pedicel 17 mm long, ± clavate. Sepals subequal, edges membranous, elliptic to orbicular, apex obtuse or rounded, mucronulate, 2-5 mm long, often tuberculate. Corolla funnel-shaped with subcylindric tube, purplish mauve, 10-18 mm long and spreading limb as wide. Capsule subglobose, glabrous, 8-10 mm long. Seeds subglobose, 5-6 mm long, brown, pubes­cent and with 5-10 mm long white hairs on edges. Flowering time March to July.
Habitat
Distinguished by its palmately partite leaves, 10-18 mm long purplish mauve flowers and thin peduncle. For full synonymy, see Verdcourt (1963a: 127).
Use
45. Ipomoea tenuipes Verde, in Kew Bulle­tin 15: 12 (1961b); Verde: 127 (1963a); Roessler: 17 (1967a); Gone.: 107 (1987); Gone.: 112 (1992); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 386 (1997). Type: Tanzania, Masai District, near Kwa Kuchinja, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 11194 (K, hole; EA).
Range
Occurs in tropical Africa, India and possibly the West Indies. In southern Africa it is rare and reaches northern Namibia, northern Botswana (Goncalves 1987: 107), the Northern Province and Mpumalanga. Grows in bushveld, savanna, grassland, riverine forest and also cultivated ground, usually on moist ground. Map 67.

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