Tropicos | Name - !Ipomoea setifera Poir.

!Ipomoea setifera Poir.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 5/31/2013)

Species	Ipomoea setifera Poir. in Lam.
PlaceOfPublication	Encycl. Meth. 6: 17. 1804.
Note	TYPE: Guyana, Brocheton (not seen).
Synonym	Convolvulus ruber Vahl, Eclog. 2: 12. 1789. TYPE: (not seen). Ipomoea rubra (Vahl) Millsp., Field Mus. Bot. 2: 86. 1900, non Murray (1791).
Description	Vines; stems twining, herbaceous, hirsute with mostly erect trichomes, also sometimes minutely aculeolate. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate to triangular- hastate, 7-14 cm long, the basal lobes obtuse to acute, apically acute to obtuse, glabrous. Inflorescences 5-7-flowered, cymose, with foliaceous bracts at the base of the pedicels. Flowers rose to purple; sepals unequal, the outer 3 broadly ovate, 15 mm long, obtuse to subacute, mucronate, the inner 2 ovate-lanceolate, 12 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous but aculeolate along the costa; corolla 6-7 cm long, the limb 4-5 cm wide. Fruits not seen.
Habit	Vines
Note	This species flowers in February.
Distribution	occurs in Guatemala, British Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, South America, the West Indies and in tropical Africa.
Note	Hemsley (Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 394. 1882) reported a collection of this species from Chagres (Fendler) that I have not seen. There has been a recent collection from near the Costa Rica-Panama border (Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, Liesner 256 MO). The species will probably be found at more sites in Panama.