Tropicos | Name - !Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth

!Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth

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Contributor Text: DANIEL F. AUSTIN

Contributor Institution: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Flower/Fruit: Fl Per.: July-September.

Type: Type: U.S.A., illustration of Convolvulus folio cordate . . . . etc., Dill., Hort. Elth. t. 84. f. 97. 1732 (here selected lectotype).

Distribution: B-7 Swat: July 1961, M.A. Malik s.n. (PES), Hazara Dist.: Abbottabad, July 1938, Madanjit Singh s.n. (RAW), C-6 Kurram: Shalozan, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6959 (RAW), C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Salt range, Sakesar, A. Rahman s.n. (RAW) , Rawalpindi Dist.: Wah, Saida Qureshi 272 (KUH), Murree Hills, Gharial, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 4111 A (RAW), id., 3906 (RAW), Barian, Sultanul Abedin 7620 (KUH), C-8 Kashmir: Rajouri, T.N. Dhar 31 (RAW), D-4 Baluchistan: Quetta, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4322 (KUH).

Distribution: A native of Americas, this species is now pantropical through cultivation and naturalization.

Comment/Acknowledgements: Morning Glory is cultivated and naturalized in the plains and the hills to 2300 m.

Map Location: B-7 Swat: July 1961, M.A. Malik s.n. (PES), Hazara Dist.: Abbottabad, July 1938, Madanjit Singh s.n. (RAW), C-6 Kurram: Shalozan, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6959 (RAW), C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Salt range, Sakesar, A. Rahman s.n. (RAW) , Rawalpindi Dist.: Wah, Saida Qureshi 272 (KUH), Murree Hills, Gharial, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 4111 A (RAW), id., 3906 (RAW), Barian, Sultanul Abedin 7620 (KUH), C-8 Kashmir: Rajouri, T.N. Dhar 31 (RAW), D-4 Baluchistan: Quetta, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4322 (KUH).