Ipomoea velardei
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Ipomoea velardei is from Peru -derived plants art from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae).
description
Ipomoea velardei is a winding climbing plant , the stems 1.5 to 5 mm are thick. The flower stalks are 4 to 16 cm long. Both are hairy with upright trichomes , 2 to 4 mm long, bulbous at the base . The leaf blades are egg-shaped, often heart-shaped , with rounded lobes. The tip is pointed or sometimes lobed and prickly. They become 6 to 20 cm long and 4.5 to 20 cm wide. The underside is hairless, the upper side is sparsely hairy and ciliate.
The inflorescences are cymes of three to seven flowers . The inflorescence stalks are 4 to 21 mm long and hairy similar to the stems. The bracts are sloping, almost elongated, blunt, 4 to 6 mm long and only streaked with a visible vein. The prophylls are similar, only narrower. The flower stalks are 6 to 14 mm long and bend back after flowering and then lengthen to 4 cm. They are studded with some long, backward-facing trichomes. The flowers buds are silky. The sepals are elliptical or almost ovate, blunt, hairless and almost identical. They are 5.5 to 6.5 mm long and 3.4 to 4.2 mm wide. The crown is funnel-shaped, purple-blue and greenish inside, it is 2.5 to 2.8 mm long and hairy on the outside with long bristles. The stamens occur in two lengths, they are about 2 mm and 17 mm long, the stamens are hairy at the base . The ovary narrows in the pen .
The fruit is (observed in the immature state) a hairless, egg-shaped, 12 mm long, two-chambered, four-lobed capsule .
distribution
The species occurs in Peru and Ecuador.
literature
- J. Francis Macbride: Convolvulaceae In: Flora of Peru , Fieldiana: Botany, Vol. XIII, Part V, No. 1, Dec. 1959.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Ipomoea - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on November 26, 2017.