WorldFloraDB - Ipomoea trifida

Characteristics

Much resembling the preceding species. Mainly differing in the short-pilose stems, petioles, leaf-blades, peduncles and pedicels, the thinner peduncles, the longer branches of the cymose inflorescences with less aggregate flowers, the paler, in dry specimens straw-coloured calyces with more densely pilose sepals, the margins of which bear less stiff hairs. Moreover the sepals often have a longer, needle-shaped mucro, whilst the outer ones are often distinctly shorter than the inner. Corolla mostly longer than in I. triloba, to 3 cm long, red-purple with a darker centre.

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Perennial vines; stems very slender and delicate, finely pubescent. Leaves variable, cordate-ovate, entire to deeply 3-or 5-lobed. Inflorescences cymose, mostly with more than one flower open at a time. Flowers with the sepals un-equal, the outer sepals 5-7 mm long, the inner sepals 10 mm long, apically acute, mucronate, finely pubescent or only ciliate, mostly drying to a straw color; co-rolla light lavender with a lavender-purple throat, 3-4 cm long. Fruits capsular, subglobose, 5-7 mm in diameter; seeds brown, rotund, glabrous.

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Growth form	herb
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Occasionally cultivated in gardens and run wild in thickets and hedges up to 300 m.

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