Ipomoea tenuirostris Choisy

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Ipomoea

Characteristics

Perennial; stems slender, twining or prostrate, up to 3 m., pilose; sometimes flowering when stem very short.. Leaf-blade ovate to oblong, 2.2– 12 cm. long, 0.7–7.5 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the apex, cordate at the base, entire, pubescent or hairy on both surfaces; petiole 2.5–8 cm. long, hairy.. Inflorescences 2–5-flowered, often lax; peduncle 1.5–9 cm. long; pedicels 1–3.5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 3 mm. long (Fig. 22/10, p. 102).. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, 7–12 mm. long, 1.5–3 mm. wide, narrowed at the apex, broad at the base, hairy (Fig. 22/1, p. 102); inner sepals narrower.. Corolla white to mauve or purple, funnel-shaped, (2–)2.5–3.8 cm. long, pubescent.. Capsule globose, 6–7 mm. diameter, tipped with indurated style-base, glabrous.. Seeds brown, minutely velvety and with long white hairs on the angles.
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Leaf lamina ovate to oblong, 4–12 × 3·5–9·5 cm., acute to rounded at the mucronate apex, cordate at the base, entire, pubescent or hairy on both surfaces; petiole 2·5–8·5 cm. long, hairy.
Flowers in 2–5–flowered often lax, sometimes dense cymes; peduncle 1·5–10·5 cm. long pedicels 1–3·5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, more or less 3 mm. long, hairy like the sepals.
Sepals ovate to lanceolate, 7–12 × 1·5–3 mm., narrowed at the apex, yellowish hairy, minutely hirsute on the reverse and margin; inner ones narrower.
Corolla funnel-shaped, white to mauve, usually, 2–4 cm. long, midpetaline areas very distinctly purple, at least at the centre minutely hirsute.
Stems slender, twining or prostrate, up to 3 m., more or less densely covered with yellowish spreading hairs.
Seeds brown, minutely velvety sometimes with long white hairs on the upper angles.
Capsule globose, glabrous, tipped with indurated persistent style base.
Flowers pale mauve with mauve centre, in cymose inflorescences.
Climbing in grass
Perennial herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:269929-1
WFO ID wfo-0001298734
COL ID 3PX5Q
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Synonyms

Ipomoea tenuirostris

Lower taxons

Ipomoea tenuirostris subsp. hindeana Ipomoea tenuirostris subsp. repens Ipomoea tenuirostris subsp. tenuirostris