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Ipomoea acanthocarpa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Choisy) Ascherson & Schweinfurth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde Islands
• Central African Republic
• Columbia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Ethiopia
• French Guiana
• Guinea Bissau
• Guyana
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Peru
• Senegal
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Swamps
• riversides
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Mar (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Dec

Herbaceous glabrous twining vine with leaves to 110mm x 80mm, sometimes shallowly bilobed. Few-flowered cymes with bracteoles to 3mm, pale mauve to pink flowers white at the base, mucronate warty sepals to 10mm x 7mm, pink or white glabrous corolla to 30mm long with limb 25mm diameter with mid-petalline bands terminating in mucros. Glabrus capsule to 10mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• KB