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Ipomoea philomega

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Velloso) House

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Patate Marron (Martinique)
• Liane Douce (Dominica)
• Churristate (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Wet forest
• riverside
• bamboo forest
• floodplain forest
• disturbed areas
• coastal
• thickets
• rain forest

Flowering Times

• Dec-Jan (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• All year

Perennial twining or trailing glabrous liane or herbaceous vine to 12m with woody glabrous stems. Pubescent mucronate leaves to 230mm x 190mm, pubescent or glabrous beneath. 80mm pink or bell-shaped magenta-purple flowers in axillary many-flowered corymbs or cymes with bracteoles to 19mm x 8mm, reddish glabrous or puberulent sepals, 2 outer sepals to 20mm long, 3 inner smaller sepals to 10mm long, dark lilac or pink corolla to 60mm long with limb to 40mm diameter. 13mm x 10mm glabrous beaked 4-valved capsule surrounded by sepals

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Standley
• KB