Ipomoea calantha
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Ipomoea Calantha is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in America and the West Indies .
description
Ipomoea calantha is a climbing plant with slender, mostly hairless stems with soft bristles only at the base . The leaf blades are membranous, broadly ovate, 6 to 10 cm long, hairless on top and more or less hairy on the underside. The leaf tips are pointed or pointed, the base is heart-shaped.
The inflorescence stalks are short and strong, the sepals are oval, ovate-oval, rounded or blunt and about the same size. They are 10 to 13 mm long and have fine, downy hairs. The crown is pink or white colored, about 9 cm long completely or almost hairless.
The fruits are almost spherical capsules with a diameter of about 12 mm. The seeds are hairy long and woolly.
distribution
The species is native to Colombia , Venezuela , Puerto Rico , Cuba , Hispaniola and Curaçao . It grows in forests and thickets at low altitudes.
Systematics
Within the genus of morning glory ( Ipomoea ), the species is classified in the series Jalapae of the section Eriospermum in the subgenus of the same name Eriospermum .
literature
- Henri Alain Liogier: Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjancent Islands, Spermatophyta , Vol. IV: Melastomataceae to Lentibulariaceae . Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1995, ISBN 0-8477-2337-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel F. Austin, Zosimo Huaman: A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas . In: Taxon . tape 45 , no. 1 , February 1996, p. 3–38 ( online ( memento of September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on July 18, 2016]).