Ipomoea carnea

Ipomoea carnea
	Ipomoea carnea
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Nightshade (Solanales)
Family :	Bindweed family (Convolvulaceae)
Genre :	Morning glories ( ipomoea )
Type :	Ipomoea carnea
Scientific name
	Ipomoea carnea
	Jacq.

Ipomoea carnea 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 carnea is a shrubby or liana plant that can grow to a height of 1 to 2 m, or even 5 m with a climbing aid. The leaf blades of their leaves are broad, heart-shaped, ovate, pointed and usually 10 to 15 cm long and similarly wide. The underside of the leaf is softly tomentose.

The flowers reach a length of up to 10 cm. They stand in multi-flowered cymes , which are shorter than the leaves, on pedicels up to 5 cm long . Flower stalks and also the buds are hairy with fine fluff. The sepals are almost the same shape, almost circular and 5 to 6 mm long. The crown is colored pink or rose red, funnel-shaped and has a fine felt band in the middle. The stamens have a length of 2 to 4 cm, the anthers are 8 mm long.

The seeds are hairy long tomentose.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 30.

distribution

The species is distributed from Peru to Central America to Venezuela and the West Indies .

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 .

One can distinguish between two subspecies:

Ipomoea carnea subsp. carnea : It occurs originally from southeastern Mexico to Venezuela and Peru.
Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Choisy) DFAustin : It occurs originally from Mexico to tropical South America.

supporting documents

literature

J. Francis Macbride: Convolvulaceae In: Flora of Peru , Fieldiana: Botany, Volume XIII, Part V, No. 1, Dec. 1959.

Individual evidence

^ Ipomoea carnea at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
^ Daniel F. Austin, Zosimo Huaman: A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. In: Taxon , Volume 45, Number 1, February 1996. Pages 3-38. http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/assoc/people/daustin/ameripomoea.html ( Memento from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea carnea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 24, 2018.

Web links

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[IPCN-1] Ipomoea carnea at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

[Austin96-2] Daniel F. Austin, Zosimo Huaman: A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. In: Taxon , Volume 45, Number 1, February 1996. Pages 3-38. http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/assoc/people/daustin/ameripomoea.html ( Memento from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[WCSP-3] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea carnea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 24, 2018.