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Ipomoea coptica

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Roth ex Roemer & Schultes

Propagation

S.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde Islands
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• China
• Congo
• Ghana
• Guinea
• India
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• wetlands
• coastal
• riverside
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar

Slender glabrous annual herbaceous creeper or twiner with quadrtangular stems to 1.5m. Palmate, pedate or pinnatifid 3-7 lobed glabrous leaves to 60mm x 20mmr, serrated leaflets. Aaxillary 1-3 flowered cymes with 2 minute bracts, white or pink flowers with purple throat, to 50mm long, glabrous sepals to 5mm x 2mm, corolla 12mm long. Glabrous capsule 10mm diameter hidden in persistent calyx.

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• JDH
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• FA
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew
• Merremia