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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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Species
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Ipomoea capillacea (H.B.K.) G. Don
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Gen. Syst. 4: 267. 1838.
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Synonym
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Convolvulus capillaceous H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 3: 97. 1819. TYPE: Colombia, Bonpland (not seen). Ipomoea muricata Cav., Icon. 5: 52, t. 478, fig. 2. 1799, non Jacq. (1798). TYPE: Cavanlilles (not seen). Ipomoea armata Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 214. 1819. Nomn. nov. for Ipomoea mnricata Cav. Ipomoea muricatisepala Matuda, Ann. Inst. Biol. Mex. 34: 124. 1964. Nom. nov. for Ipomoea miiricata Cav.
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Description
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Herb; stems erect, simple or branching from a perennial ovoid to rotund tuberous root, often twining at the tips and reaching 40 cm in length, glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves sessile, dissected into filiform segments, 1-2 cm long, glabrous. Flowers solitary on short peduncles in the leaf axils; sepals oval to broadly ovate, 4-5 mm long, obtuse, aristate, sparsely to densely muricate out- side; corolla bright pink to purple on the upper tube and limb, the lower tube white, 2-2.5 cm long. Fruits capsular, subglobose to globose, 4-5 mm in diam- eter, brown, glabrous, the 4 seeds usually 2.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, finely pubescent with short reddish-brown trichomnes.
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Habit
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Herb
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This species flowers in June, July and August.
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Distribution
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anges from the southwestern United States to northwestern South America.
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This is one of the easiest species of Ipomoea to recognize in Panama because of the erect, herbaceous habit, filiform leaf divisions, and tuberous root. All Panamanian collections have been collected from upland savanna or llanos areas.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Llano del Volca'n, Allen 4847 (F). Boquete, Davidson 1063 (F, MO, US). El Hato de Volca'n, Ebinger 773 (US). Llanos del Volcaln, Seibert 341 (MO). Near Boquete, Stern et al. 1163 (MO).
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