Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br.

Bayhops (en), Ipomée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, glabrous, with a thick tap root. Stems 5-30 m, prostrate, sometimes twining, rooting at nodes. Petiole 2-10 cm; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, circular, reniform or ± quadrate to oblong, 3.5-9 X 3-10 cm, rather thick, 2-glandular abaxially, base broadly cuneate, truncate, or shallowly cordate, margin entire, apex emarginate or deeply 2-lobed, mucronulate. Inflorescences 1-to several flowered; peduncle stout, 4-14 cm; bracts early deciduous, broadly deltate, 3-3.5 mm. Pedicel 2-2.5 cm. Sepals unequal, ± leathery, glabrous, apex obtuse, mucronulate; outer 2 ovate to elliptic, 5-8 mm, wider; inner 3 nearly circular and concave, 7-11 mm. Corolla purple or reddish purple, with a darker center, funnelform, 4-5 cm. Stamens included. Pistil included; ovary glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ± globular, 1.1-1.7 cm, glabrous, leathery. Seeds black, trigonous-globose, 7-8 mm, densely brownish tomentose. 2n = 30*.
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Vines; stems long-trailing and rooting at the nodes, perennial with a thickened taproot, glabrous. Leaves often secund, ovate, obovate, elliptic, orbicular, or transverse-elliptic to reniform, 3-10 cm long, basally truncate, attenuate or cor-date, apically mostly emarginate, rarely truncate, mucronulate, fleshy, glabrous. Flowers in mostly 1-flowered, occasionally cymose inflorescences, glabrous; sepals subequal, the outer sepals ovate to broadly elliptic, the inner sepals mostly or-bicular, 5-11 mm long, obtuse and mucronulate, glabrous, subcoriaceous; corolla limb pink to lavender-purple, throat darker purplish within, 3-5 cm long. Fruits capsular, ovoid to depressed-globular, 12-17 mm in diameter, glabrous; seeds black, densely brownish-tomentose.
Deeply tap-rooted glabrous perennial. Stems prostrate, trailing, to c. 10-(20) m long, rooting at nodes, terete. Petiole to c. 11 cm long, usually erect. Lamina 4-12-(17) × 3.5-12-(15) cm, broad-oblong to suborbicular, entire, thick; base cuneate to truncate; apex emarginate or shallowly 2-lobed. Infl. 1-several-flowered; peduncles 3-c. 15 cm long; pedicels 1-3 cm long. Sepals 8-12 mm long, unequal, ovate, obtuse. Corolla 3-5 × (4)-4.5-5-(5.5) cm, funnelform, pink with an irregular rose band inside around the base of the limb. Stamens included. Capsule c. 2 cm long, globose-ovoid. Seeds 2-4, brownish tomentose.
Glab. prostrate or trailing branched woody plant with stems up to ± 10 m. long, rooting at intervals. Lvs on petioles up to ± 10 cm. long; lamina (2)-5-(10) cm. diam., broad-oblong to suborbicular, thick, fleshy, emarginate to bluntly 2-lobed. Peduncles 1-3-fld. Sepals ovate, obtuse; corolla ± 4 cm. diam., light purple to pink. Capsule ± 15 mm. diam., ovoid-globose, 2-loculed. Seeds 2-4, villous.
Trailing perennial to 30 m with milky sap. Leaves leathery, suborbicular and emarginate or bilobed. Flowers pink to purple, sepals glabrous, obtuse-mucronate.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) 0.6
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Sandy dunes and foreshores, down to the limits of the high tide level. The plant sometimes also occurs inland, along roadsides and ditches, at elevations up to 800 metres.
Light 5-5
Soil humidity 5-5
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity 5-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use invertebrate food material medicinal poison social use
Edible leaves roots stems
Therapeutic use Abscess (fruit), Anti-bacterial agents (leaf), Antirheumatic agents (leaf), Carbuncle (leaf), Colic (leaf), Dermatitis (leaf), Diuretics (leaf), Ear diseases (leaf), Edema (leaf), Elephantiasis (leaf), Fever (leaf), Furunculosis (leaf), Gonorrhea (leaf), Gout (leaf), Headache (leaf), Hypoglycemic agents (leaf), Inflammation (leaf), Insulin regulation (leaf), Low back pain (leaf), Pain (leaf), Parasympatholytics (leaf), Skin diseases (leaf), Wounds and injuries (leaf), Antirheumatic agents (root), Arthralgia (root), Cathartics (root), Edema (root), Gonorrhea (root), Gout (root), Pain (root), Abdominal pain (seed), Appetite stimulants (seed), Fatigue (seed), Muscle cramp (seed), Insect bites and stings (stem), Reproductive Aid (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Bedsore (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Bugbite (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Colic (unspecified), Cramp (unspecified), Cramps (unspecified), Evil eye (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Pregnancy (unspecified), Prolapse (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Sternutatory (unspecified), Sting (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Ulcer (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified), Whitlow (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Abscess (unspecified), Sting(Fish) (unspecified), Ache(Stomach) (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Anus (unspecified), Blennorrhagia (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Dropsy (unspecified), Escharotic (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Carbuncle (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified), Analgesics (unspecified), Antiemetics (unspecified), Antirheumatic agents (unspecified), Appetite stimulants (unspecified), Astringents (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Flatulence (unspecified), Furunculosis (unspecified), Hemorrhage (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Laxatives (unspecified), Menorrhagia (unspecified), Muscle cramp (unspecified), Pain (unspecified), Proctitis (unspecified), Rectal prolapse (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified), Sterilization, reproductive (unspecified), Urination disorders (unspecified), Vomiting (unspecified), Wounds and injuries (unspecified), Abortifacient agents (whole plant), Appetite stimulants (whole plant), Astringents (whole plant), Cardiovascular system (whole plant), Diuretics (whole plant), Laxatives (whole plant), General tonic for rejuvenation (whole plant)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Ipomoea pes-caprae habit picture by Daniel Barthelemy (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae habit picture by Daniel Barthelemy (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae habit picture by michel cosme (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Ipomoea pes-caprae leaf picture by భారతీయ ఆయుర్వేద జీవన విజ్ఞానం (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae leaf picture by భారతీయ ఆయుర్వేద జీవన విజ్ఞానం (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae leaf picture by mathilde norodom (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Ipomoea pes-caprae flower picture by Eric Boez (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae flower picture by Nathalie Romeuf (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae flower picture by Nathalie Romeuf (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Ipomoea pes-caprae fruit picture by prasadnayak2002 (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae fruit picture by Guillaume JUGE (cc-by-sa)
Ipomoea pes-caprae fruit picture by JP (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Ipomoea pes-caprae world distribution map, present in Angola, Anguilla, American Samoa, French Southern Territories, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Benin, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Barbados, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Cook Islands, Colombia, Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Eritrea, Spain, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guam, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Saint Lucia, Madagascar, Mexico, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Mozambique, Mauritania, Montserrat, Martinique, Mauritius, Malawi, Malaysia, Mayotte, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Sudan, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Sao Tome and Principe, Suriname, Seychelles, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, South Africa, and Zambia

Conservation status

Ipomoea pes-caprae threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30040623-2
WFO ID wfo-0001296638
COL ID 6MWG8
BDTFX ID 164315
INPN ID 445581
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Convolvulus bauhiniifolius Ipomoea aegopoda Convolvulus biglandulosus Convolvulus capripes Convolvulus retusus Plesiagopus brasiliensis Plesiagopus cuneifolia Plesiagopus maritima Plesiagopus sovana Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora Ipomoea brevipes Convolvulus bilobatus Convolvulus brasiliensis Ipomoea brasiliensis Ipomoea maritima Ipomoea orbicularis Ipomoea rotundifolia Convolvulus rotundifolius Latrienda brasiliensis Ipomoea biloba Batatas maritima Convolvulus pes-caprae Plesiagopus rotundifolia Ipomoea pes-caprae var. emarginata Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis Ipomoea pes-caprae var. brasiliensis Ipomoea bilobata var. emarginata Ipomoea pes-caprae var. perunkulamensis Ipomoea pes-caprae