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.