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Ipomoea setosa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Ker-Gawler

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Mar (Brazil)
• Feb-Jun (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Brazil)

Scrambling perennial herb, glabrous stems with soft fleshy spines. Mucronate glabrous dentate leaves to 320mm x 320mm, mostly 3-lobed. Axillary cymes with mucronate bracteoles to 10mm x 2mm, glabrous purplish brown sepals to 16mm in fruit, sometimes with soft fleshy spines, pink glabrous corolla to 60mm long with limb 25mm diameter. Glabrous capsule to 15mm long.

Further References

• NYBG
• Kew
• KB