| Synonyms: |
Ipomoea taborana Dammer |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small mostly annual herb usually less than 20 cm high. Stems spreading-ascending, often reddish, appressed strigose. Leaves oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2.7-8.5 cm long, discolorous, sparsely strigose above, more or less densely white-hairy beneath; margin entire; petiole up to 15 mm long. Flowers in congested small, densely hairy heads on peduncles up to 9 cm long, more or less rigidly erect. Sepals lanceolate, 6-10 mm long, white-silky with a conspicuous green edge. Corolla funnel-shaped,red or mauve, 1.5-3.3 cm long; tube narrow below; mid-petaline areas minutely silky outside. Capsule ovoid globose, hairless. |
| Type location: |
Kenya |
| Notes: | This variety differs from var. crepidiformis only by its much smaller dwarfed stature. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In woodland or grasslands, on sand dunes. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 780 - 1220 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| FZ divisions: | N |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | N |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Tuesday 26 July 2016 |
| Literature: |
Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 78 - 79. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 36. |