Ipomoea microdactyla
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Ipomoea microdactyla is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae).
description
Ipomoea microdactyla is a hairless climber with spines at least at the base of the stem . The root is thickened like a bulb . The leaves are ovate to lanceolate, with entire margins or with five to seven fingers. The base is slightly heart-shaped to cut off or beveled, the tip is long and pointed.
The flowers are in zymose inflorescences or rarely individually. The almost identically shaped sepals are 6 to 7 mm long, ovate-circular and decorated with spikes. The salver-plate-shaped crown is colored from scarlet to carmine, its corolla tube is 2.5 to 4 cm long and the coronet is 2.5 to 3 cm wide.
The fruits are almost spherical to ovate, 10 to 12 mm diameter and brown-colored capsule fruits at which the stylus base is stable and forms a point. The seeds are elongated, 7 to 8 mm long and woolly covered with long trichomes .
distribution
The species is widespread in Puerto Rico , Cuba , Bahamas and Florida , where it grows on limestone cliffs .
Systematics
Within the genus of morning glories ( Ipomoea ), the species is classified in the series Eriospermum of the section Eriospermum of the subgenus 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 .
- Daniel F. Austin and Zosimo Huaman: A Synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas . In: Taxon , Vol. 45, No. 1, Feb. 1996. pp. 3-38.
