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Ipomoea imperati
Ipomoea imperati
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Vahl) Grisebach
Common Names
- Jia hou teng (Pinyin)
- Hunakai (Hawaiian)
Geographical Habitats
- Algeria
- Angola
- Northern Territory
- Queensland - Australia
- Belize
- Benin
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Crete - Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Andaman Islands - India
- Java - Indonesia
- Sinai - Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Kazan-retto
- Ryukyu Islands - Japan
- Lebanon
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Palestine
- Panama
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Azores
- Madiera - Portugal
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Balearica Islands
- Canary Islands - Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Turkey
- Cayman Islands - UK
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- South Carolina
- Texas - USA
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Windward Islands
- Zaire
Natural Habitats
- Coastal
- beaches
- dunes
- grasslands
Flowering Times
- Dec-Apr (Nicaragua)
- Oct-Mar (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous glabrous or nearly so, tuberous rooted perennial creeping to 5m or sometimes climbing twining vine with adventitious roots, wrinkled angular stems. 3-5 palmate glabrous thick mucronulate lobed leaves to 140mm x 40mm, toothed on margins. Axillary solitary or cymes with minute bracts to 3mm long, of 50mm long white to pale yellow flowers somewhat fringed with a dark red centre, mucronate glabrous sepals to 15mm x 4mm & longer & purplish spotted in fruit, white corolla with purple eye 50mm long, corolla tube 40mm long. Glabrous 15mm long brown 4-valved seed capsule or with white silky villi,
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- FOH
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOMP
- JAA
- GBS
- Kew
- Merremia