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Lepistemon owariensis (P.Beauv.) Hallier F. ex De Wild.

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Lepistemon

Characteristics

Inflorescences cymosely many-flowered, sessile or shortly peduncled; pedicels up to 2 cm. long, usually hairy; bracts minute, calyx open; sepals ovate to elliptic 6 × 3·5 mm., obtuse, more or less cuspidate, pilose with long yellow hairs to glabrous.
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Leaf lamina cordate-ovate, up to 15 cm. long and wide, acute to emarginate at the apex, entire or shallowly lobed or very coarsely dentate, with deltoid lobes about 1 × 2 cm., pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 11 cm. long, hairy like the stem.
Corolla white, up to 1·8 cm. long; tube at first subcylindric, subcampanulate, becoming avoid as the ovary expands; limb up to 3 cm. in diam.
Capsule ovoid-globose, setose except in the upper part, indehiscent or bursting irregularly, coriaceous.
Seeds grey-black, glabrous, minutely shallowly pitted, globose or nearly so.
Stems covered with long appressed yellow-brown bristly hairs.
Climbing perennial, up to 3 m.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food gene source material medicinal
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Distribution

Lepistemon owariensis world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:270323-1
WFO ID wfo-0000157130
COL ID 3PWN3
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Synonyms

Lepistemon lignosus Lepistemon owariensis Ipomoea owariensis Convolvulus owariensis Ipomoea repandula Lepistemon africanus Lepistemon chevalieri
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