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Ipomoea setifera

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Poiret

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Bejuco de Puerco
• Gloria de la Mañana
• Wild Morning Glory
• Liane à Faux (Guadeloupe)
• Liane Douce (Guadeloupe)
• Coudrel (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bahamas
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• shrubland
• coastal
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Nov-Apr (Puerto Rico)
• Jan-Apr (Windward Islands)
• Nov (Cuba)
• Apr-Aug (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr (Puerto Rico)
• Nov (Cuba)

Perennial pubescent or glabrous herbaceous twining or trailing lianas, villous branches, yellow-pilose stems with aerial roots. Glabrous lobed mucronate leaves to 110mm x 50mm. Axillary 1-5 flowered cymes or umbels withmucronate bracteoles to 20mm x 15mm of mauve, pink or purple 40mm wide x 90mm long flowers with darker centre with bracts, outer sepals to 20mm long, 2 interior sepals to 12mm long, pink glabrous corolla to 80mm long with limb 40mm diameter. Axillary 1-2 flowered, 4-valved fruit capsule to 15mm long with persistent sepal.

Naturalized in W.Africa

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• Kew
• SAFIO
• KB