Ipomoea crispa Hallier F.

Perennial with thick taproot. Stems annual, prostrate, up to at least 750 mm long, bristly hairy when young, pubescent or glabrescent when older. Leaves entire, ovate or oblong, 15-40 mm long, nearly glabrous to thinly bristly hairy, apex rounded to acute with recurved mucro, base cuneate to subcordate, margin distinctly crisped; petiole 5-10 mm long. Peduncles 1-flowered; bracteoles linear or lanceolate, up to ±10 mm long; pedicels very short; peduncles and pedicels thickening, pedicels lengthening to up to 10 mm in fruit. Sepals subequal, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, hairy outside, 8-13 mm long, in fruit hardened and glabrescent, enlarged to 14-17 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple or magenta, 30-50 mm long, glabrous to silky outside on midpetaline areas. Capsule globose, apiculate, 8-9 mm in diameter, light brown, glabrous. Seeds ±5 mm long, densely hairy.