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Ipomoea ramosissima

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Poiret) Choisy

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Bahia
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• riverine forest
• cut-over forest
• fence lines

Flowering Times

• Jun-Sep (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Apr

Perennial or annual glabrous or sparsely hairy herbaceous twining liana with occasionally pilose stems. Sagittate, sometimes 3-lobed mucronate leaves to 55mm x 45mm, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs. Axillary cymes or umbels with tiny bracteoles of 2-9 flowers, 25mm long white to rose pink flowers with a darker centre with limb 17.5mm diameter, mucronate glabrous sepals,inner sepals to 7mm long, glabrous outer sepals to 4mm long. 4-valved glabrous capsule with persistent calyx to 8mm

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FOPE
• Kew
• KB