Ipomoea barteri Baker
var. barteri

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Near stream at boundary with Coutada 10, Coutada 12

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with slender prostrate or twining stems up to 1 m long, often tinged purplish, growing from a tuberous root-stock. Leaves linear, lanceolate to ovate, 3–10 cm long, thinly textured; becoming hairless or hairy along the margins; margin entire; petiole 2–15 mm long, hairy. Flowers usually solitary, rarely paired, fading early in the morning; peduncle 0.3–2 cm long. Sepals ovate or orbicular, 6–8 mm long, with reddish papillae, more rarely almost smooth, hairy or becoming hairless. Corolla funnel-shaped, crimson, rose or mauve or limb white and tube coloured, 5–7·5 cm long; tube rather dilated in middle. Capsule globose, hairless.
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Habitat:	In woodland and grassland, usually on sandy ground.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 1800 m
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Worldwide distribution:	From West Africa to DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,C,E
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 23 June 2021
Literature:	Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Page 96. 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.

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