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Ipomoea eriocarpa
Ipomoea eriocarpa
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- R. Brown
Common Names
- Mao guo shu (Pinyin)
- Ndokeli
- Ndokilipia (Zande)
- Sengelenge Pembe (Babua)
- Umushikura (Kirundi)
Geographical Habitats
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia - Australia
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Sichuan
- Yunnan - China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Laos
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tadzhikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Open forest
- thickets
- floodplains
- shrublands
- riverside
- grassland
- coastal
- hedges
- savanna
- roadsides
Flowering Times
- Jan-Apr (Australia)
- Aug-Oct (India)
Fruiting Times
Annual or perennial herbaceous hispid woody twiner or trailer, bristly villous stems. Mucronate pilose leaves or glabrous above, to 125mm x 60mm. Axillary 1-2 or many-flowered cymes with hirsute bracts to 8mm long, of pale pink, purplish or white 10mm flowers with darker centres, sepals villous outside 8mm long, white or pale red corolla 24mm long, with purple eye to 9mm long villous outside, limb 13mm diameter. Villous or glabrous 4-valved capsule to 6mm diameter.
Common weed of cultivated fields
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- NYBG
- FCP
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- FSEG
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- Kew
- Merremia