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IPOMŒA ficifolia Hallier f. var. laxiflora [family ]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
IPOMŒA ficifolia Hallier f. var. laxiflora [family ], in Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Math. Naturwiss. Cl. cvii. 48. —Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 35, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230 (subvar. auriculata). IPOMŒA engleriana Dammer [family ], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 333.
Information
Stem climbing, clothed with spreading golden hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, 3-lobed, reaching 3–3 1/2 in. long, nearly as broad, with longish adpressed hairs above and white tomentum beneath, except on the veins which bear longer adpressed yellow hairs; petiole slender, shorter or sometimes longer than the blade, hairy like the stem and peduncles. Cymes laxly many-flowered, much-branched, long-peduncled; bracts small, subulate, hairy. Sepals equal, linear-lanceolate, 3–4 lin. long, clothed with golden hairs. Corolla rose-red, 2 in. in diam. Capsule globose, 4 lin. in diam. Seeds pilose.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land in cold dense woods at Dadacci Uteci, Riva, 1208.German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 2500 ft. Holst, 8721! Bote (Buiti?) Kässner, 88! Usaramo; Ukwere, Stuhlmann, 106.British East Africa Nile Land Liani, 400 ft., Kässner, 338!
IPOMŒA ficifolia Hallier f. var. laxiflora [family ]
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