Ipomoea murucoides
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Ipomoea murucoides a plant is art from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in Guatemala and Mexico .
description
Ipomoea murucoides is a mostly 5 to 9 m high tree , the crown of which is low and protruding and the bark is smooth and white. The branches are thick, the young twigs have thick white hairs. The leaves are slender bestielt , initially somewhat hairy and downy later glabrous. The leaf blades are elongated-lanceolate and usually 7 to 12 cm long. Towards the front they are long pointed, blunted or rounded at the base. The leaf margin is entire.
The inflorescences are hairy white, tomentose, terminal, racemose in shape and consist of a few to several flowers , but the flowers can rarely be found individually in the leaf axils. The inflorescence stalks are shorter than the leaf stalks or may be absent entirely. The flower stalks are 2 to 4 cm long. The sepals are 2 to 3 cm long, almost identical in shape, leathery and rounded at the tip. Their outside is tomentose, the inside is silky hairy. The crown is pure white, 7 to 8 cm long and tomentose on the outside.
The fruit is a 2.5 cm long, egg-shaped, hairless capsule . The edge of the seeds is densely covered with soft, protruding, white trichomes .
distribution
The species is common in Guatemala and southern Mexico . It grows there on shrubby, open, dry, often stony slopes or plains or in open, dry forest. It can often be found in hedges or in the oak forest. It grows at altitudes between 600 and 2000 m.
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, Nos. 1-4, 1970-1973.