Jacquemontia ovalifolia Hallier F.

Oval-leaf clustervine (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Jacquemontia

Characteristics

Annual or biennial prostrate herb; branches slender, glabrous, ascending, up to 3 m. long.. Leaf-blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, up to 8 cm. long and 4.5 cm. wide, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, glabrous, very slightly fleshy; petiole up to 3 cm. long.. Inflorescences few-flowered; peduncle usually short, 3 cm. long but reaching 6 cm.. Bracts up to 8 mm. long and 3 mm. wide.. Sepals ovate or obovate-elliptic, acute, unequal, 4–7 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, venose in fruit.. Corolla blue, about 1 cm. long.. Capsule pale brown, thin, 5 mm. in diameter; fruiting pedicels up to 1.3 cm. long.
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Leaf lamina oblong to oblong-lanceolate or elliptic to subcircular, up to 5 × 3·5 cm., obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, more or less glabrous, very slightly fleshy; petiole up to 3 cm. long.
Stems slender, woody at base, prostrate-ascending, radiating from a thick rootstock, glabrous or nearly so, with 2-armed hairs.
Inflorescences few-flowered axillary cymes; peduncle up to 3·5 cm. long, erect Bracts linear or obovate, up to 8 × 3 mm.
Seeds trigonous, minutely areolate, the outer 2 margins narrowly and irregularly winged.
Sepals ovate or obovate-elliptic, acute, unequal, 4–7 × 4 mm. venose in fruit.
Capsule pale brown, thin, subglobose; fruiting pedicels up to 1·3 cm. long.
Corolla blue, subrotate to shallowly campanulate, about 1 cm. long.
Annual or perennial herb.
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Growth form herb
Growth support climber
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Distribution

Jacquemontia ovalifolia world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:270218-1
WFO ID wfo-0001297278
COL ID 6NDBJ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 897665
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Synonyms

Convolvulus quinquepartitus Ipomoea quinquepartita Ipomoea ovalifolia Jacquemontia ovata Jacquemontia coerulea Convolvulus coeruleus Ipomoea oleracea Jacquemontia ovalifolia Convolvulus ovalifolius