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Ipomoea batatoides

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Choisy

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal dunes
• forest
• rainforest
• secondary vegetation
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• forest edge
• tropical forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar

High-climbing herbaceous glabrous perennial liana. Udulate-denticulate or weakly 3-lobed densely hairy or glabrous leaves to 110mm x 80mm. Axillary cymes with 4mm bracteoles, of 50mm pale pink flowers, almost white, normally glabrous coriaceous sepals to 10mm x 5mm, pink or sometimes white glabrous corolla to 80mm long with limb to 60mm diameter. Glabrous capule to 12mm x 6mm.

Further References

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