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Ipomoea pes-tigridis
Ipomoea pes-tigridis
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Hu zhang teng (Pinyin)
- Myauk-kazun (Myanmar)
- Tigerfoot Ipomoea
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Borneo
- Botswana
- Cambodia
- Chad
- Guangdong
- S. Guangxi
- Hainan
- Taiwan
- S. Yunnan - China
- Guinea Bissau
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Malacca
- Penang
- Selangor - Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Somalia
- Cape Province
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Thickets
- coastal
- roadsides
- riverside
- wasteland
- grassland
- forest
- swamp
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous very hairy annual twiner or creeper, stems with yellowish hairs. Palmate leaves 3-9 lobed to 125mm x 130mm with silky hairs, segments to 70mm x 28mm. Few-flowered axillary umbels with 10-12 hirsute bracts to 50mm x 10mm, of 40mm violet, white or pink flowers 30mm long, purple or white lobed corolla hairy outside to 55mm x 30mm, sepals sparsely hairy without, 12mm long. Brown glabrous 8mm diameter seed capsule with persistent calyx,
Naturalised in some areas
Medicinal uses
Further References
- Mobot
- FOC
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOMP
- Flora Malesiana
- GBS
- Kew
- Merremia