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Ipomoea verbascoidea

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

Choisy

Common Names

• Kalume Ka Lendia
• Kimboï
• Kimgoï
• Kiobwe (Kibemba)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Cape Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed forest
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

High-climber to tree or erect perennial shrub, stems & leaves with white woolly tomentum becoming glabrescent. Leaves to 150mm x 125mm pubescent above & white-tomentose beneath. Axillary 1-3 flowered inflorescence with 2 bracts to 25mm long tomentose on back, white tomentose calyx 12mm long, coriaceous tomentose sepals 12mm x 8mm, glabrous rose-purple or mauve corolla to 100mm long, tube 12mm diameter, limb 60mm diameter. Coriaceous glabrous capsule 25mm x 12mm enclosed in persistent sepals.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• FOTA
• Kew
• Merremia