Ipomoea heterodoxa
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Ipomoea heterodoxa is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in America .
description
Ipomoea heterodoxa is a slender, twisting, hairless, herbaceous plant . The leaves are long stalked , the leaf blade is divided into five to seven paired partial leaves. The lower partial leaves are short-stalked or sessile, inverted lanceolate or linear-inverted lanceolate, with entire margins, about 4 to 8.5 cm long and 8 to 18 mm wide. Towards the blunt tip they are somewhat narrowed and narrowed at the base. The upper partial leaves are 6 to 12 cm long and deep, often three-lobed to the base. At the base they are long wedge-shaped and tapering to a point.
The inflorescences are few to several flowers containing cymes that are shorter than the petioles. The inflorescence stalk is up to 1.5 cm long, the slender flower stalks are barely 1 cm long. The sepals are unevenly shaped, almost membranous, ovate or almost circular. The inner sepals are 5 to 6 mm long, rounded and truncated towards the front, the outer are somewhat shorter. The crown is colored white and tinged with pink, or completely pale pink. It is hairless and 3.5 to 4 cm long, the coronet is barely more than 1.5 cm wide.
The fruit is an elliptical-egg-shaped capsule that becomes 1 cm long. The seeds are hairy with long, soft, protruding trichomes .
distribution
The species is native to British Honduras and Mexico and grows in moist thickets or open forests at altitudes just above sea level.
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.