Ipomoea coptica (L.) Roth ex Roem. & Schult.

A glabrous annual. Stems slender, trailing, or sometimes twining. Leaves orbicular in outline, 1-3 cm long and broad, digitate, with 5 coarsely dentate to deeply and irregularly, once or sometimes twice pinnatifid segments; the teeth or lobes of the segments mostly acute; the middle segment larger than the lateral ones, ovate, oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate in outline, the two basal segments sometimes 2-lobed again; petiole mostly shorter than the blade, 3-8(-20) mm, with pseudo-stipules (small leaves of the axillary shoot) at its base. Inflorescences axillary; peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, 1-3½ cm long, narrowly 2-alate, cymosely 1-3-flowered. Pedicels 4-5(-7) mm, at first erect, in fruit bent downwards. Bracts lanceolate, entire, small, 1½-3 mm long, acute, or sometimes larger and palmately laciniate like the leaves (var. acuta CHOISY in DC. Prod. 9 1845 384 ). Sepals subequal, ca 4 mm long, oblong or elliptic, minutely cuspidate, thinly coriaceous, verruculose on the back. Corolla funnel-shaped, small, ca 12 mm long, white. Capsule globose, ca 7-8 mm diam., glabrous, 3-celled. Seeds 6, ca 2½ mm long, densely greyish-tomentose.