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Ipomoea sagittifolia
Ipomoea sagittifolia
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Burman f.
Common Names
- Mao jing shu (Pinyin)
- Ban-kalmi (India)
- Taw-kazun (Myanmar)
- Kalembula (Kibembe)
- Ndokili (Azande)
- Purple Heart Glory
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Queensland
- New South Wales - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Hainan - China
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Laos
- Malawi
- Kedah
- Malacca - Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Nigeria
- Pacific Isles
- Pakistan
- Senegal
- Singapore
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Coastal
- thickets
- grassland
- wasteland
- fields
- marshes
- riverside
- savanna
- disturbed forest
Flowering Times
- All year (Indonesia)
- Aug-Sep (India)
Fruiting Times
Tuberous rooted perennial herbaceous glabrous or villous twiner to 2.5m or prostrate herb with glabrous or hirsute stems. Mucronulate ciliated glabrous or pubescent leaves to 100mm x 80mm sometimes trilobed. Axillary few to many-flowered cymes with minute bracts, yellow flowers?, coriaceous glabrous calyx 8mm long, coriaceous sepals to 8mm long, bright red-purple or whitish corolla to 80mm x 50mm with a darker centre, corolla tube to 40mm x 7mm, corolla lobes pilose at apex, sepals to 6mm long. Fruit a glabrous long brown capsule to 8mm diameter.
Medicinal uses
Further References
- FOTA
- Mobot
- FOC
- JBH
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FA
- FS
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOMP
- GBS
- FBA
- JDH
- G. Don
- Kew
- Merremia
- MAN