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Ipomoea triloba
Ipomoea triloba
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Little Bell
- Gbogbogui or Gbahunkeki (Adja)
- Kootibitirinan or Kuotina (Waama)
- Tid'ndeti or Tihòrenhònti (Otamari)
- Three-lobed Morning Glory
Geographical Habitats
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Galapagos - Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Netherland Antilles
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Turks & Caicos Islands - UK
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward islands
Natural Habitats
- Grassland
- thickets
- hedges
- wasteland
- savanna-forest
- coastal
- shrubland
- roadsides
- swamp edges
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous mostly glabrous prostrate or twining annual to 3m. Entire or 2-5 lobed glabrate dentate leaves hairy or glabrous to 100mm x 70mm. Axillary 2-3 flowered cymes with minute bracts, mucronulate coriaceous pubescent sepals to 13mm long, glabrous white, pink or red-purple corolla to 30mm long sometimes with a darker centre with limb 15mm across. Fruit a bristly pubescent 4-valved capsule to 8mm diameter surrounded by enlarged calyx.
A known weed
Vegetable, medicinal uses
Further References
- Flora Malesiana
- The Plant List 2
- JAA
- FOSEUS
- G. Don
- Kew
- SAFIO
- NYBG
- Standley
- Traditional Vegetables in Benin