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Ipomoea heptaphylla

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Sweet

Cultivated

C, edible tubercules

Common Names

• Palm-leaf Morning-glory
• Patate marron (Guadeloupe)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia - Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Texas - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• montane areas
• thickets
• inundated areas
• marsh
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Jan-Mar (Paraguay)
• Feb-May (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

Annual twining herbaceous climber with almost glabrous stems, slender herbaceous twiner or creeper. Compound palmate glabrous 5-7 parted leaves, sometimes bifid mucronulate leaflets to 90mm x 25mm. Solitary or rarely paired axillary mauve to purple flowers 25mm long with minute bracteoles to 1mm, whitish outside, purple inside, coriaceous pink sepals to 6mm x 3mm, purple or pink glabrous corolla to 50mm x 35mm. Brown glabrous fruits to 20mm x 10mm.

Further References

• The Plant List 2 : Fedde
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Kew
• KB