Ipomoea crepidiformis Hallier f.
var. minor Rendle

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Synonyms:	Ipomoea taborana Dammer
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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.
Notes:	This variety differs from var. crepidiformis only by its much smaller dwarfed stature.
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Habitat:	In woodland or grasslands, on sand dunes.
Altitude range: (metres)	780 - 1220 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	C
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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.

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