Ipomoea fimbriosepala
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Ipomoea fimbriosepala is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is widespread.
description
Ipomoea fimbriosepala is a twisting , herbaceous plant , the stems of which are hairless or hairy only at the nodes . The leaves are stalked with 1 to 5 cm long petioles , which are sometimes slightly warty. The leaf blades are heart-shaped, spear-shaped to narrow arrow-shaped, 5 to 12 cm long and 1 to 6 cm wide. They are hairless, the tip pointed and prickly, five to six pairs of side veins extend from the midrib.
The inflorescences are in the armpits and consist of one to a few flowers . The inflorescence stalks are usually 5 cm long or shorter, but can occasionally be up to 9 cm long. The bracts are more or less ovate, 0.5 to 1.5 cm long and hairless. The flower stalks are angled and 1.3 to 3.5 cm long. The sepals are unevenly shaped, the outer three are larger, tapering egg-shaped to lanceolate, 1.5 to 2.2 cm, the edge is curled, the tip is spiky and strongly three-keeled on the back. The keels are toothed and hairless at the base. The crown is narrow, funnel-shaped, 2.5 to 4 cm long, hairless and purple to red and is darker in color in the middle. The stamens do not protrude beyond the crown, the stamens are hairy tomentose in the lower half. The ovary is conical and hairless. It has a thread-like stylus about 5 mm long with a double-lobed, head-like scar . The seeds are black-brown, egg-shaped, 5 mm long and densely hairy with fine felted hair.
distribution
The species is distributed in tropical West and Central Africa, on islands in the western Indian Ocean, in southeastern China, from New Guinea to the islands in the Pacific , in southern Mexico and in tropical South America .
literature
- Fang Rhui-cheng and George Staples: Ipomoea (PDF file; 360 kB) In: ZY Wu and PH Raven (eds.): Flora of China . Vol. 16 (Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae). Science Press, Beijing and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis 1995.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 24, 2017.