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Ipomoea triloba

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Identification
Ipomoea triloba L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Ipomoea triloba Linn. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Ipomoea triloba Linn. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sp. Pl. 161 (1753); Meisaner in Martius Fl. Brasil. 7: 277 (1869), incl. vars.; Eggers in Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 13: 71 (1879), incl. vars.; Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 18: 138 (1893); Britton & Wilson in Sci. Surv. P. Rico & Virgin Isl. 6, 1: 116 (1925); van Ooststr. in Blumea 3: 509 (1940).
Ipomoea leucantha Webb ex Hook. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Fl. Nigrit. 152 (1849); F.T.A4, 2: 176; F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 216; Berhaut FlSén157; Eggers l.c(1879); Britton & Wilson l.c117 (1925), not of Jacq(1788).
Information
A glabrous twiner and trailer with rather angular stems, sepals long-ciliate, density of indumentum very variable; flowers white, mauve, pink or pale red-purple 3/4-1 in. long.
Range
A circumtropical weed, native of tropical America
Distribution
Sen.: Ouassadou Berhaut 1231; 2129. Dakar (fl. 8 fr. Sept.) Berhaut 834!Guin.: Heudelot 734!S. L.: Glanville 366! Magbile (Dec.) Thomas 5930! 5932! 5981! Njala (fl. 8 fr. Nov.) Small 805 (red-fl. form)! Magbile (Dec.) Thomas 6065! 6491! Port Loko (Dec.) Thomas 5822! 6535! Russell (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Deighton 3316 (red-fl. form)! Kambia (Dec.) Deighton 1082! Musaia (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Deighton 4466! Segbwema (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Deighton 3476! Roboli, near Rokupr (Nov.) Jordan 178!Iv. C.: Béyo (fl. & fr. Dec.) Leeuwenberg 2001!
Notes
[Note: The W. African specimens are almost white-flowered, but this character is insufficient for a taxonomic distinction between American and African specimens; such white-flowered forms do occur also in the W. Indies and in S. America (see Meissner and Eggers, etc. l.c.), and they have sometimes been treated unnecessarily in the older literature as varietally or (as with I. leucantha Webb ex Hook., not of Jacq.) specifically distinct.-H. H.]

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