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Ipomoea biflora
Ipomoea biflora
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Persoon
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia - Australia
- Botswana
- Burkina
- Burundi
- Chad
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Guizhou
- Hongkong
- Hunan
- Jiangxi
- Taiwan
- Yunnan - China
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Cape Provinces
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- dry areas
- disturbed areas
- montane areas
- coastal riverside
- grassland
- thickets
- wooded savanna.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous annual or perennial hairy or downy slender twiner, erect plant or creeper. Mucronulate glabrescent or hairy trilobed leaves 100mm x 60mm, villous beneath, pilose stems & petioles. 1-3 flowered axillary cymes of 19mm with minute bracts to 3mm, villous peduncles, white or pink flowers with dark spot at base, calyx 6mm long, hairy sepals 8mm x 4mm, pale mauve or white corolla 30mm x 20mm, 9mm diameter glabrous 4-valved seed capsule with persistent sepals 8mm x 6mm. Annual twiner or trailer with pilose stems, hairy leaves 50mm long, inflorescence with minute bracteoles, sepals 8mm long pilose on back, purplish corolla. Glabrous capsule 6mm diameter with persistent sepals.
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- FI
- JDH
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- AAU
- Nombot
- APD
- Kew
- Merremia
- IFV