Ipomoea obscura

Perennial herb, prostrate, in coastal sands. Source: Jeffery et al. (1996)

Sumber: An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola

Brazil (Pernambuco). Native from Tropical Africa, being the first register to Brazil’s northeast. Selected Voucher: — Piedade, Alves-Araújo et al. 565 (UFP).

Sumber: Climbing plants of a fragmented area of lowland Atlantic Forest, Igarassu, Pernambuco (northeastern Brazil)

" Habitat in China, Batavia, Zeylona, Surinamo. " RCN: 1227.

Sumber: Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)

Description. Twining or trailing perennial herb; stems rather slender, pilose or glabrescent, up to 1.2 m long. Leaves petiolate, 2.5 - 9 x 0.5 - 7.5 cm, ovate, shortly acuminate, base cordate with rounded auricles, rarely sagittate (var. sagittifolia), glabrous or shortly pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 1 - 8 cm, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence of few-flowered, shortly pedunculate axillary cymes; peduncles 3.5 - 4 cm, glabrous, pubescent or thinly pilose; bracteoles 1 - 1.5 mm, lanceolate; secondary peduncles 0.5 - 1.5 cm; pedicels 10 - 20 mm, often bent or recurved, glabrous or, less commonly, pubescent or pilose; sepals 4 - 8 x 2 - 4 mm, glabrous, often wrinkled or muricate, margins scarious, usually glabrous but occasionally pilose with long white trichomes, slightly unequal, outer ovate, acute to shortly acuminate or mucronate, inner ovate-elliptic obtuse, occasionally mucronate; corolla 1.5 - 2.5 cm long, white, yellow or orange with purple base to the inside of the tube, narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous, limb often weakly lobed, 3 - 4 cm diam. Capsules 18 x 12 mm, globose, glabrous; seeds 4 - 5 x 2.5 - 3.5 mm, minutely tomentellous.

Sumber: A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World

Distribution. Generally thought to be an African species introduced into the Caribbean region. JAMAICA. W. Stearn 164 (S). DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. H. A. Allard 13214 (S). LESSER ANTILLES. Antigua: H. E. Box 1308 (BM, K). Barbados: A. McIntosh 351 (K). Guadeloupe: Raynal-Roques & Jeremie 21118 (K, P); Marie Galante fide Powell (1979). Dominica: C. Whitefoord 5505 (BM). HAWAII. Kauai, U. J. Faurie 1042 (BM); Judd et al. s. n. [25 / 9 / 1937] (K).

Sumber: A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World