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Ipomoea splendor-sylvae

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

House

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• riverside
• secondary forest
• inundated areas
• primary forest edge
• thicket

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan
• Mar

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Jan

Perennial glabrous herbaceous twiner with furrowed stems, leaves to 100mm x 100mm, entire or 3-lobed, slightly pubescent above, mostly glabrous beneath. Many-flowered cymes of 90mm long violet to purple flowers darker in throat, glabrous coriaceous sepals to 5mm long, corolla to 40mm long, 2-celled fruit capsule to 8mm x 9mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• Kew
• Standley