Ipomoea tuxtlensis

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Ipomoea tuxtlensis
Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Nightshade (Solanales)
Family : Bindweed family (Convolvulaceae)
Genre : Morning glories ( ipomoea )
Type : Ipomoea tuxtlensis
Scientific name
Ipomoea tuxtlensis
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Ipomoea tuxtlensis is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is common in America . According to R. Govaerts, it must have the name Ipomoea peteri (Kuntze) Staples & Govaerts .

description

Ipomoea tuxtlensis is an herbaceous climbing plant that is usually completely hairy. The leaves are long stalked , the leaf blade is ovate-heart-shaped or rounded-heart-shaped, deeply heart-shaped to cut off at the base, with entire margins or mostly three-lobed and 5 to 15 cm long. The lobes are pointed or blunt. The upper side of the leaf is densely tomentose with hairy trichomes , the underside is hairy with glossy trichomes.

The inflorescences consist of a few to many flowers . The inflorescence stalks are usually less than 2 cm long, the strong flower stalks only 4 to 5 mm. The sepals are almost the same shape, 10 to 12 mm long, elongated-ovoid. The outer ones are densely hairy and silky and rounded at the tip, the inner ones are completely or almost hairless and blunt. The crown is colored wine-red, narrowly bell-shaped and 3.5 to 6 cm long, the coronet is 2 to 3 cm wide.

The fruits are spherical, hairless capsules with a diameter of 1 cm, which are densely hairy with long hairs.

distribution

The species is distributed in southern Mexico , Guatemala , British Honduras , Nicaragua and Panama. It grows there in damp or wet thickets, often also in rocky locations, at altitudes of less than 450 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, Numbers 1-4, 1970-1973.

Individual evidence

  1. Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 23, 2017.