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Jacquemontia tamnifolia
Jacquemontia tamnifolia
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Grisebach
- Propagation
- S.
- Conservation Status
- Near threatened
Common Names
- Small-flowered Morning-glory
- Aguinildo peludo
- Hairy Clustervine
- Liseron Savane (Guadeloupe)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- NE. Argentina
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- India
- Kenya
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Puerto Rico
- Senegal
- Somalia
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uganda
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Virginia - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- woodland
- swamp-side
- creekside
- primary forest
- hedgerows
- riverside
- coastal thickets
- coastal forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Annual herbaceous slightly woody hairy twining climbing, erect or creeping vine with pilose to glabrate stems. Dentate glabrescent leaves with villous edges, leaves to 120mm x 40mm hairy above with rusty hairs on veins beneath. Petioles, peduncles & calyx hairy, hairy many-flowered axillary cymes with foliaceous bracts to 40mm long, 15mm villous white flowers with green bracts to 40mm long turning lilac or blue, flowers hairy, triangular rusty-hirsute sepals to 12mm long, calyx segments 5mm long with grey hairs, corolla lavender blue with paler centre to 30mm long, flowers involucrated with leaves. Flattened 8-valved light brown glabrous capsule to 5mm diameter, slightly twining pilose stems, inflorescence to 15 blue flower.,
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- Botanicus
- FB
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- USDA
- Botanicus
- FOTA
- JAA
- Smithsonian
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- USNH
- SAFIO
- FL
- Kew