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Ipomoea mauritiana
Ipomoea mauritiana
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Jacquin
- Propagation
- E.C.L.S.
- Cultivated
- C.
- Hardiness Zone
- Min 15C
Common Names
- Qi zhao long (Pinyin)
- Bhui Kumra (India)
- Wakai (Fiji)
- Humakai (Hawaii)
- Wauvi (Fiji)
- Dabici (Fiji)
- Umara (Tahiti)
- Kumara ( New Zealand)
- Kazun (Myanmar)
- Pan-kazun (Myanmar)
- Wa uvi (Fiji)
- Dabici (Fiji)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guatelmala
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Rodriguez
- Réunion
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Natal - South Africa
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Forest river banks
- mangrove swamps
- coastal
- scrubland
- wasteland
- hedges
- gallery forest
- forest remnants
- thickets.
Flowering Times
- Jul-Aug (French Guiana)
- Mar-Jun (Australia) Dec-Mar (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
Twining or trailing perennial glabrous vine with tuberous roots, woody caudiciform stems, winged when old. Palmate 3-9 lobed glabrous mucronate leaves to 150mm x 100mm, lobes to 90mm x 30mm. Axillary few to many-flowered panicles or corymbs with 6mm bracteoles, of 80mm reddish-purple or pinkish flowers with darker centres, glabrous or puberulent coriaceous sepals to 11mm x 6mm, inflated glabrous pink or lilac corolla to 60mm x 70mm, tube to 60mm long with limb 30mm diameter. 4-valved fruit glabrous capsule to 15mm x 10mm green with persistent calyx around base.
Grown for edible roots, medicinal uses
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Herklots 1976
- Huxley 1992
- P & R 1997
- FOC
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- JPS
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- FA
- Botanicus
- FV
- JAA
- GBS
- FB
- ispecies.org
- Kew
- KB
- Merremia