Ipomoea villifera
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Ipomoea villifera is a plant type from the genus of Morningglory ( Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants (Convolvulaceae). The species is endemic to the Guatemalan Huehuetenango department.
description
Ipomoea villifera is a vigorous climber , the stems of which are initially soft-bristled, tomentose and hairy with brownish trichomes , but later bald. The leaves are covered with slender, 5 to 7 cm long, hairy petioles . The leaf blades are almost circular, heart-shaped, entire or three-lobed and 7 to 12 cm long and about as wide. The upper side is hairy sparsely, the underside is more densely hairy.
The inflorescences consist of a few to a few flowers , they are almost head-shaped and tomentose. The fully grown inflorescence stalks protrude above the surrounding leaves. The bracts are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed, tomentose and 1 to 2.5 cm long. The flower stalks are very short. The sepals are narrowly lanceolate, tapering, tomentose and 16 to 22 mm long. The crown is narrowly bell-shaped and purple in color. The outside of the corolla tube and the central axis of the petals is sparsely tomentose.
distribution
The species is only known from a few collections from the Guatemalan Huehuetenango Department , Honduras and the Mexican state of Chiapas. The species grows there in damp thickets and forests at altitudes between 1100 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.