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Ipomoea muricata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Jacquin

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Lahare Sag (Nepali)
• Ding xiang qie (Pinyin)
• Nata (Mexico)
• Maxh (Mexico)
• Kazun-nwe (Myanmar)
• Lilac Bell (St. Eustatius)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• thickets
• floodland
• tropical forest
• volcano
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

Annual or perennial glabrous herbaceous twiner or creeper with soft recurved prickles on warty furrowed angular stem. Entire or 3-lobed mucronate glabrous leaves to 180mm x 170mm. Axillary 1- 5 flowered cymes with bracts to 8mm long, 75mm purplish-blue nocturnal flowers, white sepals with green mid-rib, outer sepals to 7mm long, inner ones to 14mm long tipped with awn 4mm long, glabrous red, purple or lilace corolla hairy within tube, to 80mm long with a tube to 60mm long, limb 50mm diameter. Fruit a glabrous beaked 4-valved ovoid 25mm diameter capsule

Seeds have medicinal uses. Tender leaves & shoots cooked as vegetable, paste of seed used for snake bites. Cultivated as an ornamental

Further References

• Flora Malesiana
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• Neotrop
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• JAA
• Kew
• KB