Ipomoea sagittata
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Ipomoea sagittata is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in America as well as on the West Indies .
description
Ipomoea sagittata is a mostly small, herbaceous climber . Their stems are thin and completely or almost hairless. The leaves have thin petioles that are 4 to 7 cm long. The leaf blades are deeply divided like a spike at the base. The basal leaf sections are linear or lanceolate and often just as long as the almost linear terminal leaf section.
The flowers are in single-flowered partial inflorescences , the inflorescence stalks are shorter than the leaf stalks and strong, the flower stalks are elongated and thick and widened towards the top. The egg-shaped sepals are 8 to 9 cm long, they are hairless, almost leathery, blunt at the tip or rounded and spiky. The crown is purple, hairless, 6 to 7 cm long and 6 cm or more wide.
distribution
The species is widespread in the southeastern USA , British Honduras , Guatemala and Mexico , as well as on the West Indies . The ancient world occurrences in the Mediterranean area from Algeria and Spain to Turkey are mostly taken for natural despite the great geographical disjunction.
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 . Volume 24, Part IX, No. 1-2, 1970, pp 49-50 (online).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clive A. Stace: Ipomoea . In TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 82 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Werner Greuter, Hervé-Maurice Burdet, Guy Long (eds.): Med-Checklist. A critical inventory of vascular plants of the circum-Mediterranean countries . Vol. 3: Dicotyledones (Convolvulaceae - Labiatae) . Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique, Genève 1986, ISBN 2-8277-0153-7 . (on-line).