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Aniseia martinicensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Choisy

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Watubua (Fiji)
• Akar Ulan Putih (Malaysia)
• Akar Lidah Patong (Malaysia)
• Liseron Savane (Guadeloupe)
• Patate Marron (Guadeloupe
• Martinique)
• Petit Liseron (Martinique)
• Tehelel-aul (Palau)
• Whitejacket
• Rada Lata (Bangladesh)
• Bejuquillo Leche Leche (Bolivia)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• disturbed areas
• forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• savanna
• lake edge
• wasteland
• shrubland
• marshland
• river mouth areas
• hedgerows
• riverside
• coastal thickets cultivated areas
• swamp forest
• on floating mats of vegetation

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (Bolivia)
• Dec (Sri Lanka)
• Nov (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Bolivia)
• Dec-Feb (Puerto Rico)

Twining slender glabrescent herbaceous annual or perennial climbing or prostrate vine to 1.5m, stems glabrous or pilose, peduncles with brown hairs. Mucronate serrated leaves glabrous above, slightly puberulous on venation beneath to 110mm x 50mm. Corolla brown-hairy without, solitary axillary white flowers to 36mm long, in 1-3 flowered inflorescences with bracts to 2mm long, calyx 16mm long becoming 18mm long in fruit, pubescent sepals, outer sepals to 20mm long, inner ones smaller, white dentate corolla with tube to 25mm x 25mm densely hairy on ribs. 4-valved glabrous brown capsule, 20mm long with persistent calyx.

Naturalised in some places

Used as vegetable, medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• JPS
• JDH
• AFVP
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• FA
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• GBS
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Standley
• BTH