EcoFlora - Ipomoea

Ipomoea
Family: Convolvulaceae Sue Carnahan	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 30(2) PLANTS: Annual or perennial vines, shrubs or trees. STEMS: usually twining, sometimes prostrate or floating, glabrous or pubescent. LEAVES: simple, lobed, divided or less often compound. INFLORESCENCE: mostly axillary, l-many-flowered cymes, rarely paniculate. FLOWERS: on long or short pedicels, the bracts scale-like to foliaceous; sepals herbaceous to coriaceous, ovate to oblong or lanceolate, glabrous to pubes- cent, often somewhat enlarged in fruit; corollas purple, red, pink, white, or less often yellow, actinomorphic or rarely slightly zygomorphic, funnelform, campanulate, tubular or salverform, the limb shallowly or rarely deeply lobed, the mid-petaline bands well defmed by 2 distinct nerves; stamens usually included, the filaments filiform, often triangular-dilated at the base, mostly unequal in length; ovary usually 2-4-locular, 4(-6) ovulate; style simple, filiform, usually included; stigmas capitate, entire or 2-3-lobed, globose. FRUITS: globose to ovoid capsules, mostly 4-6-valved or splitting irregularly. SEEDS: 1-4(-6). NOTES: Ca. 500 spp. through the tropics and subtropics. (Greek: ipos = worm + homoios = like, referring to its twining habit). Q'Donell, C. A. 1959. Lilloa 29:19-86; Matuda, E. 1963. An. Inst. BioI. Mex. 34:85-145; McDonald, J. A. 1995. Harvard Papers in Botany 6:97-122. REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Sep 5, imbricate, often unequal; cor funnelform to campanulate or salverform, the margin entire, angled, or shallowly lobed; ovary 1-3-locular, with 2 ovules per locule, or sometimes 4-locellar by the development of partitions between the ovules; style 1, elongate; stigma entire or 2-3-lobed; capsule 2-4-valved; ours twining herbs with broad, cordate or lobed lvs and handsome fls produced singly or few together at the summit of axillary peduncles. 600+, cosmop. (Pharbitis, Quamoclit) Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: BIO 303 Plant Evolution Class Checklist \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Ipomoea abrupta Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea abyssinica Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea acanthocarpa Map not Available Ipomoea acutisepala Map not Available Ipomoea adenioides Map not Available Ipomoea aegyptia Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aequatoriensis Map not Available Ipomoea affinis Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea alba Map not Available Ipomoea albivenia Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea alexandrae $Media resource of Ipomoea alexandrae$ Map not Available Ipomoea alterniflora Map not Available Ipomoea altoamazonica Map not Available Ipomoea amazonica Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea amnicola Map not Available Ipomoea ampullacea Map not Available Ipomoea ancisa Map not Available Ipomoea anemophoba Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea angulata Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea angustifolia Map not Available Ipomoea anisomeres Map not Available Ipomoea apoensis Map not Available Ipomoea aprica Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aquatica Map not Available Ipomoea arborescens Map not Available Ipomoea arenaria Map not Available Ipomoea arenicola Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea argentaurata Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea argentea Map not Available Ipomoea argenteosericea Map not Available Ipomoea argentifolia Map not Available Ipomoea argentinica Map not Available Ipomoea argillicola Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea argyreia Map not Available Ipomoea argyrophylla Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aridissima Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aristolochiifolia Map not Available Ipomoea asarifolia Map not Available Ipomoea asclepiadea Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aspera Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea atacorensis Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea aurantiaca Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea baccata Map not Available Ipomoea bahiensis Map not Available Ipomoea bakeri Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea bampsiana Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea barbata Media not available Map not Available Ipomoea barbatisepala Map not Available Ipomoea barlerioides Map not Available Ipomoea barteri Media not available Map not Available