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Ipomoea heterotricha
Ipomoea heterotricha
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Didrichsen
Common Names
- Mutata (Tshiluba)
- Walorir (Azande)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Riverside
- savanna
- pasture
- gallery forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Annual twiner or prostrate herb, stems with golden-yellow hairs. Leaves hairy both surfaces 90mm x 50mm. Cymes with white-hairy bracts to 16mm long enlarging to 40mm at fruiting stage, flowers with bracts to 9mm long, sepals with yellowish hairs to 6mm long, purple-violet or white corolla to 18mm long with purple-crimson throat 4mm long, Glabrous capsule to 6mm long.
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