atoll research bulletin no. 392 the flora of - Smithsonian Institution ...
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Ipomoea hederifolia L.<br />
syn. I. angulata Lam.<br />
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Rare to occasional. Slender, branching,<br />
herbaceous, nearly glabrous, right-twining vine, up to 4 m high; leaves, up to 5 o 6 cm<br />
or longer and about 4 cm wide, variable, entire or irregularly lobed, ovate-cordate,<br />
acute, mucronate, basal sinus wide, marginally more or less coarsely dentate or sub-<br />
lobate, 7-nerved from base, midrib branched upward, long-petiolate; petiole, slender, as<br />
long as blade; flowers, few to several in branching, long-pedunculate, axillary clusters;<br />
corolla, 3 to 4 cm long, bright red, attractive, tubular, limb flaring to about 2.5 cm in<br />
diameter, calyx lobes long-pointed; fruit, 7 mm in diameter, a globose capsule, opening<br />
by 4 valves; seeds, 4, about 4 mm long, black, densely short hairy. Found growing<br />
spontaneously in ruderal sites on <strong>the</strong> coastal strip, climbing in a Leucaena leucocephala<br />
thicket and over roadside shrubbery in Ijuw near Anibare boundary in 1987. 5(149), 6,<br />
7(22307).<br />
Ipomoea littoralis B1.<br />
syns. I. denticulata (Desv.) Choisy; Convolvulus denticulatus Desv.; I. gracilis<br />
sensu auct. <strong>no</strong>n R. Br. ; I. ch.oisiana Wight ex Safford<br />
Indige<strong>no</strong>us. Malaysia and <strong>the</strong> Pacific. Rare. Slender, creeping or twining<br />
herbaceous maritime vine, with glabrous stems; leaves, 4 to 10 cm long and 3 to 8 cm<br />
wide, alternate, light-green, subglabrous, ovate-cordate (heart-shaped) to reniform, entire<br />
or 3-lobed, acute or acuminate to obtuse, sometimes emarginate, base cordate with broad<br />
sinus, 7-nerved from base, midrib branched upward; flowers, solitary or few on<br />
peduncles, 1 to 4 cm long, pedicels 2 to 5 cm; sepals (calyx-lobes), all approaching 1<br />
cm, but unequal, apex slightly mucronate, inner lobes wide as long; corolla, about 3 to 4<br />
cm long, funnelform with spreading limb, dark pink to lavender, darker in <strong>the</strong> throat;<br />
fruit, approaching 1 cm, a glabrous, 2-celled capsule; seeds, 4, glabrous. Roadside and<br />
waste places. 8.<br />
Ipomoea macrantha R. & S. "wild moon flower"<br />
erekogo (N); te ruku (K); fue (T)<br />
syns. Convovulus tuba Schlect.; I. tuba (Schlecht.) G. Don; I. grandzjlora sensu<br />
Koidz. <strong>no</strong>n Lam.; I. glaberritna Boj. ex Bouton; I. alba sensu Taylor <strong>no</strong>n<br />
L.; Calonyction tuba (Schlect.) Colla; C. comospemza Boj.<br />
Indige<strong>no</strong>us. Pantropical. Occasional. Coarse, somewhat woody (sub-herbaceous),<br />
creeping or twining, night-blooming (climbing) vine; leaves, 5 to 16 cm long and about<br />
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equally-wide,alterna~~e-suborbicUlFtOh~rt-sk~ed,- acsinK mucgnac, base<br />
rounded, deeply cordate with open sinus, entire to slightly undulate, 7- to 9-nerved from<br />
base, midrib branched upward; petioles, up to 8 cm or longer; flowers, solitary or few,<br />
commonly in pairs, on elongate axillary peduncles, 8 to 14 cm long and 10 to 14 cm