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Ipomoea mauritiana
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Photo: Helen Pickering
Within the Victoria Falls fenced area over the knife edge bridge on the side away from the Falls
Photo: Helen Pickering
Within the Victoria Falls fenced area over the knife edge bridge on the side away from the Falls
Photo: Helen Pickering
Within the Victoria Falls fenced area over the knife edge bridge on the side away from the Falls
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| Synonyms: |
Ipomoea digitata sensu Baker & Rendle |
| Common names: | Giant potato (English) Large forest ipomoea (English) Natal cotton plant (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Robust perennial climber, growing from large tuberous roots. Stems twining rarely prostrate, becoming woody. Leaves almost circular in outline, usually palmately 3-9-lobed, sometimes entire, up to 20 × 15 cm; lobes lanceolate to ovate, acuminate; petiole 3-11 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, few to many-flowered; peduncle up to 18 cm long. Calyx markedly convex, 6-11 mm long, clasping the corolla tube. Corolla funnel-shaped but more or less distinctly 5-lobed, 6-9 cm in diameter, reddish-purple or pinkish-mauve with a darker centre. Capsule ovoid-spherical, hairless, Seeds covered in silky hairs c. 7 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | mauritiana: from Mauritius |
| Habitat: | In open riverine woodland and tree savanna, on the banks of rivers and swamps and by roodsides, often in sandy soils. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1000 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | More or less pantropical; also in South Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 13 December 2010 |
| Literature: |
Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 54. (Includes a picture). |
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Flora of Mozambique: Ipomoea mauritianaAfrican Plant Database: Ipomoea mauritiana
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Ipomoea mauritiana
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ipomoea mauritiana
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Ipomoea mauritiana
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Ipomoea mauritiana
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Ipomoea mauritiana
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ipomoea mauritiana
JSTOR Plant Science: Ipomoea mauritiana
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Ipomoea mauritiana
Tropicos: Ipomoea mauritiana
West African Plants database: Ipomoea mauritiana
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