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Ipomoea parasitica

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Kunth) G. Don

Common Names

• Correguela (Mexico)
• Pudreoreja (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• California - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest remnants
• riverside
• waste areas
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Nov-Feb
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Feb

Annual or perennial herbaceous twiner to 7m, angular hairy stems, young stems silvery-pubescent, can have soft prickles on stem. Leaves downy on veins both surfaces, to 100mm x 90mm . 5-9 flowered axillary cymes with 3mm bracteoles, 40mm purple or blue flowers white inside, downy towards base, coriaceous sepals to 7mm x 5mm, purple corolla to 40mm long with tube white outside & yellow inside, blue lobed limb 30mm diameter. Glabrous capsule to 12mm x 5mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Standley
• KB