Compilation
Ipomoea xiphosepala

Procumbent or trailing herb. Stems several from the base, up to 1·10 m. long, subterete, at first densely, later finely and shortly pubescent. Leaf lamina oblong or lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, 2–7 × 0·5–1 cm., usually hastate-truncate or auricled at the base, sometimes some lanceolate from a narrow base or all lanceolate, obtuse, minutely mucronate at the apex, entire to subrepand, hairy or glabrescent; petiole 5–10 mm. long, glabrescent; inflorescences axillary 1–2 flowered; peduncle absent or very short, thinly hairy with rather long hairs as are bracteoles, pedicels and sepals; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 3–6 mm. long, obtuse or subacute; pedicels up to 10 mm. in fruit. Sepals subequal, lanceolate to linear, acuminate, 7–15 × 1–2 mm., spreading in fruit. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, mauve or white, 12–15 mm. long; midpetaline areas hairy towards the tips. Capsule globose, hirsute. Seeds brown with a villous tomentum of appressed stiff hairs.