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Ipomoea aitonii
Ipomoea aitonii
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Lindley
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- India
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Senegal
- Somalia
- Northern Provinces - South Afria
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Grassland with treeclumps
- open forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous hairy annual or perennial twining climber, occasionally prostrate. Mucronate leaves sometimes palmately 3-lobed hairy above 100mm x 100mm with white wool beneath, stem with long stiff hairs.Axillary cymes with hirsute bracts to 12mm long, of 1-11 pink to purple flowers with darker centre, hairy without, hairy calyx, sepals to 14mm long, purplish-white corolla to 25mm x 25mm. Hairy pale green glabrous or hairy fruit capsule to 8mm long with persistent style & sepals to 16mm long.
Further References
- Mobot
- FI
- JDH
- G. Don
- RSNRV
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- Kew
- Merremia