Ipomoea setosa Ker Gawl.

Brazilian morning-glory (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea

Characteristics

Herbs annual, twining; axial parts with swollen-based purplish bristles. Stems to 5 m. Petiole 8-15 cm; leaf blade ± circular to broadly ovate in outline, 10-20 cm, 3-7-lobed; margin of lobes undulate-serrate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 3-12-flowered; peduncle to 20 cm. Pedicel ± clavate, not distinct from calyx base. Flowers nocturnal. Sepals ovate to oblong, unequal, 1-1.4 cm, apex obtuse; outer 2 longer, glabrous or abaxially purplish bristly as stems. Corolla bright purplish to pink, ± salverform; tube 5-6 cm, 4-5 mm in diam. basally, 1-1.2 cm apically; limb 5.5-7 cm in diam., 5-lobed. Stamens included; anthers cordate basally. Pistil included; ovary glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ± globose or depressed globose, 1.5-2 cm in diam. Seeds oblong, brown woolly. 2n = 30.
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Vines; stems herbaceous and covered with scattered fleshy trichome-like structures, these often drying black. Leaves suborbicular to ovate in outline, deeply 3-7-lobed, 10-20 cm long, cordate basally, the lobes ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers solitary or in 3-12-flowered cymose clusters, covered with fleshy trichomes; sepals oblong, 10-14 mm long, obtuse, subcoriaceous, covered with fleshy trichomes; corollas pink to lavender, salverform, the tube 5-6 cm long, the limb campanulate to subrotate. Fruits capsular, subglobose to depressed-globose, 1.5-2 cm in diameter; seeds co-mose.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Ipomoea setosa world distribution map, present in Brazil, China, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:269795-1
WFO ID wfo-0000747953
COL ID 3PWZH
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Synonyms

Modesta setosa Ipomoea pickelii Ipomoea setosa Ipomoea horrida Ipomoea melanotricha Convolvulus setosus Calonyction setosum Ipomoea pavonii Calonyction campanulatum Calonyction pavonii Ipomoea campaniflora Ipomoea chaetophora Ipomoea setosa var. pavonii Ipomoea setosa var. campanulata