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Ipomoea fimbriosepala

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Choisy

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Chi e shu (pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Caroline Islands
• SE. China
• Congo
• Fiji
• Madagascar
• Marianas
• Marquesas
• Mexico
• New Caledonia
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Reunion
• Tubuai Island
• Uruguay
• Vanuatu
• venezuela
• Wallis & Futuna Islands
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Grasslands

Flowering Times

• Dec (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous hairy-stemmed annual twiner with glabrous stems becoming setose. Glabrous leaves to 100mm x 50mm. 1-2 flowered axillary cymes with bracteoles to 15mm x 5mm, of 40mm purplish to red flowers with a darker centre, glabrous calyx 12mm long, mucronate sepals to 20mm x 10mm, rose-purple glabrous corolla to 40mm long, tube 6mm diameter, with shallowly lobed limb 50mm diameter. Glabrous capsule pale brown to 15mm x 14mm, 4-valved, enclosed by persistent sepals

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• KB
• Merremia