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Ipomoea arachnosperma

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Name

Identification
Ipomoea arachnosperma Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ipomoea arachnosperma

Flora

Entry for IPOMOEA dichroa Choisy [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 dichroa Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1845).
IPOMOEA arachnosperma Welw. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1859).
Information
Annual herb; stems prostrate or twining, up to 2 m or more long, densely pilose with white or yellowish hairs. Leaf-blades 3–13 x 3.5–13 cm, mostly deeply 3-lobed, cordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, green and ± spreadingly pilose above, densely covered with white cottony hairs beneath; petiole 1–7 cm long. Cymes few–several-flowered; peduncle 1.5–7(–15) cm long; pedicels 5–15 mm long; bracts lanceolate, 5–7 x 1–2 mm. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, 10–22 x 1.5–3 mm, pilose and glandular. Corolla pink, mauve or blue, 1.2–2 cm long, pilose in upper part. Capsule ovoid, c. 8 mm long, pubescent at the apex. Seeds ovoid, c. 4.5 mm long, mostly densely white pubescent.
Range
S1 widespread in tropical Africa and India.
Altitude range
175 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6752.
Notes
First record for Somalia. For the nomenclature of this species, see Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 31: 165 (1978).

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