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Ipomoea ephemera Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 1, page 9, (1987) Author: Maria Leonor Gonçalves
Names
Ipomoea ephemera Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kirkia 1: 30, TAB. V. (1961). Type: Mozambique, Zambezia, Faulkner K423 (EA, isotype; K, holotype).
Information
Prostrate-ascending or erect annual herb up to 1·5 m. Stems not much branched, slender, stellate-pubescent. Leaf lamina linear to linear-oblong, 1·8–6 × 0·4–1·2 cm., cuneate to shortly cordate or hastate at the base, obtuse or subacute, minutely mucronate at the apex, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces; petiole up to 7 mm. long, stellate-pubescent. Flowers axillary, solitary; bracts linear more or less 4 mm. long; pedicels 2·5 mm. long. Sepals subequal, ovate-lanceolate, up to 10 × 3 mm., membranous stellate-pubescent, ciliate at the margin. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, up to 3 cm. long, nearly glabrous; tube narrow, more or less 2 cm. long, purple; limb whitish. Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, apiculate by the style-base. Seeds black, appressed pubescent.
Habitat
Bushland and pans, dampish soil.
Range
Not known elsewhere
Distribution
Mozambique Z Lugela, Muobede Rd., fl. & fr. 19.iv.1949, Faulkner 423 (K, holotype; EA, isotype).Mozambique N Nampula, between Corrane and Nampula, fl. & fr. 11.iv.1937, Torre 1389 (COI; LISC).

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 1, page 9, (1987) Author: Maria Leonor Gonçalves
Names
Ipomoea ephemera Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Kirkia 1: 30, TAB. V. (1961). Type: Mozambique, Zambezia, Faulkner K423 (EA, isotype; K, holotype).
Information
Prostrate-ascending or erect annual herb up to 1·5 m. Stems not much branched, slender, stellate-pubescent. Leaf lamina linear to linear-oblong, 1·8–6 × 0·4–1·2 cm., cuneate to shortly cordate or hastate at the base, obtuse or subacute, minutely mucronate at the apex, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces; petiole up to 7 mm. long, stellate-pubescent. Flowers axillary, solitary; bracts linear more or less 4 mm. long; pedicels 2·5 mm. long. Sepals subequal, ovate-lanceolate, up to 10 × 3 mm., membranous stellate-pubescent, ciliate at the margin. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, up to 3 cm. long, nearly glabrous; tube narrow, more or less 2 cm. long, purple; limb whitish. Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, apiculate by the style-base. Seeds black, appressed pubescent.
Habitat
Bushland and pans, dampish soil.
Range
Not known elsewhere
Distribution
Mozambique Z Lugela, Muobede Rd., fl. & fr. 19.iv.1949, Faulkner 423 (K, holotype; EA, isotype).Mozambique N Nampula, between Corrane and Nampula, fl. & fr. 11.iv.1937, Torre 1389 (COI; LISC).
Ipomoea ephemera Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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