Ipomoea rubens
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Ipomoea rubens is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae).
description
Ipomoea rubens is a perennial climbing plant that can grow up to 4 m long. The stems are round, slightly woody and become slightly grooved when drying. They are densely hairy with short, soft, white trichomes . The leaves are stalked with 3 to 7 cm long, slender petioles . The leaf blades are broadly ovate to circular, 5 to 15 cm long and 4 to 12 cm wide. They are entire or seldom three-lobed, they are pointed towards the front and heart-shaped at the base. The leaf surfaces are hairless to slightly downy hairy or densely hairy velvety.
The inflorescences are one to little flowering cymes . These have very short branches, so that the flowers are almost umbel-shaped . The inflorescence stalks are 2 to 15 cm long and hairy like the stems. The flower stalks are up to 1.5 cm long and tomentose. The bracts are egg-shaped and tiny. The sepals are ovate, blunt or finely spiky, 6 to 8 mm long and tomentose. The crown is 4 to 5 cm long, funnel-shaped, sparsely hairy and purple to mauve with a dark center.
The fruits are spherical, hairless capsules containing egg-shaped, densely haired seeds with 2.5 mm long trichomes .
distribution
The species is distributed in tropical Africa , Madagascar , India , Malaysia , the Philippines and Guyana . It grows in swamps, near rivers and in swampy bushland at altitudes between 5 and 1220 m.
literature
- Maria Leonor Gonçalves: Convolvulaceae . In: E. Launert (Ed.): Flora Zambesica , Vol. 8, Part 1, Kew Publishing, 1987
Web links
- Ipomoea rubens . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.