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Ipomoea ticcopa

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Isotype of Ipomoea coptica Roem. & Schult. var. siphonantha Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Ipomoea coptica Roem. & Schult. var. siphonantha Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Type of Ipomoea coptica (L.) Roem & Schult var. siphonantha Hall. f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Holotype of Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Holotype of Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Isotype of Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ipomoea coptica
  • Ipomoea ticcopa

Flora

Entry for Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
Ipomoea ticcopa Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 213 (1958). Type : Tanganyika, Dar es Salaam, Observation Hill, Vaughan 2793 (EA, holo.!, BM, K, iso.!)
Ipomoea coptica Hall.f. var. siphonantha [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 28 : 48 (1899). Type : Mozambique, Manica e Sofala, Lion’s Creek, Schlechter 12218 (B, holo. †)
Information
Very similar to the last species in habit and foliage. Leaf-blade small, orbicular in outline, palmately 5-lobed to the base with the basal lobes usually again bilobed, about 2.5–3.5 cm. in diameter; lobes obovate, up to 2.5 cm. long and 2.2 cm. wide, rounded in outline at the apex, strongly cuneate at the base, sharply toothed; petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long. Peduncle 1.5–2 cm. long, often conspicuously winged, 1–2-flowered; bracts leafy, up to 2.0 cm. long, with 3 pinnatifid lobes; pedicels 5–7 mm. long. Sepals elliptic, 6–7 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide, obtuse, the outer cuspidate, smooth, tuberculate or cristate. Corolla white; tube narrowly cylindric, 1.7–2.1 cm. long, 1.5–2 mm. in diameter; limb funnel-shaped, 9 mm. long, 13 mm. wide. Capsule globose, 6–7 mm. in diameter, 6-valved. Seeds 6, trigonous, about 3 mm. long, pubescent, brown.
Range
DISTR. K7; T6, 8
Altitude range
near sea-level to 25 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Malindi, Oct. 1951, Tweedie 982 !TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam, Observation Hill, 8 Apr. 1939, Vaughan 2793 ! ;TANGANYIKA Lindi District near Lindi, Busse 2441 ! & near Rondo Plateau, Busse 2826 !
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique

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