Ipomoea santaerosae
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Ipomoea santaerosae is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in Central and North America . According to R. Govaerts, it must todaybearthe name Ipomoea bernoulliana Peter.
description
Ipomoea santaerosae is a slender, woody climber that is completely or almost hairless. The leaves are long stalked , the leaf blade is ovate-heart-shaped, 4 to 10 cm long and 3.5 to 6.5 cm wide. Towards the front they are long pointed, the base is deeply heart-shaped. At the base the leaf blade is hairy with short bristles, otherwise hairless.
The inflorescences are one to three flowered cymes , the inflorescence stalks are usually 1 cm long. The flower stalks are slender, but thicken towards the tip. The sepals are about the same length, almost leathery and 18 to 30 mm long. They are elongated to oval in shape, blunt at the top and awned for a short time . They thicken a little on the fruit and are clearly veined. The crown is bell-shaped, red-violet or pink-pink in color, hairless and 6.5 to 9 cm long. The corolla tube is 1.5 cm or more wide at the opening.
The fruits are four-chambered, almost spherical, hairless capsules with a diameter of 8 to 12 mm. The four seeds are reddish brown and finely hairy.
distribution
The species is common in Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras , Nicaragua and Mexico . It occurs there in damp or wet thickets or on dry, shrub-covered slopes at altitudes between 300 and 1400 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 24, 2017.