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Ipomoea aristolochiifolia

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

G. Don

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed humid areas
• shrubland
• grassland
• all watercourses
• coastal
• forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Mar-May (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-May
• Jun

Perennial or annual slender glabrous twining climber or trailer with angularly striated scabrous stems, downy branchlets. Mucronate leaves to 80mm x 45mm with toothed margins, glabrous above puberulent on veins or glabrate beneath. Axillary cymes of 1-6 flowers, with setaceous bracts to 1.5mm, of 5-9 pale purple to white flowers to 20mm long, glabrous, often warted coriaceous mucronate sepals to 5mm x 2mm, white, blue or purple corolla to 25mm long, blue or violet limb to 25mm diameter, white tube. Fruit to 10mm x 5mm, ovoid glabrous capsule

Invasive

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley