Ipomoea aurantiaca
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Ipomoea aurantiaca is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in Guatemala .
description
Ipomoea aurantiaca is a hairless, climbing , herbaceous plant whose stems reach a diameter of only 2 mm. The leaves are elongated-lanceolate, pointed towards the front, cut off at the base. The leaf blade is membranous or almost membranous, 4.5 to 12 cm long and 1.5 to 6 cm wide. The petioles are very slender with a diameter of 0.5 mm and 1 to 1.5 cm (rarely up to 4 cm) long.
The few-flowered, zymous inflorescences are in the armpits and are about as long as the surrounding leaves. The peduncle is about as thick as the stem and 2.5 to 7 cm long. The flower stalks are slender and somewhat flaky and usually shorter than 2 cm. The calyx has a length of 8 to 10 mm, the sepals are unevenly shaped, broadly ovate to almost round, blunt and leathery, their edges are membranous. The outer sepals are somewhat flaky on the outside and 4 to 6 mm long, the inner ones are about 8 to 10 mm long. The crown is orange or yellow in color, tubular-bell-shaped, hairless and 5 to 6 cm long and 1 cm wide.
distribution
The species is only known from Chiapas and Huehuetenango in Guatemala . It grows there on damp slopes and in thickets at altitudes of 1000 to 2000 m.
literature
- Paul C. Standley, Louis O.Williams: Convolvulaceae . In: Paul C. Standley, Louis O.Williams, and Dorothy N. Gibsons (eds.): Flora of Guatemala , Fieldiana: Botany, Part IX, Numbers 1-4, 1970-1973.