Tropicos | Name - !Ipomoea setosa Ker Gawl.

!Ipomoea setosa Ker Gawl.

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

Species	Ipomoea setosa Ker.
PlaceOfPublication	Bot. Reg. 4: 5. 335. 1818.
Synonym	Ipomoea melanotricha Brandeg., Univ. California Pub]. Bot. 4: 381. 1913. TYPE: Mexico: Zactiapan, Purpus 5747 (not seen).
Description	Vines; stems herbaceous and covered with scattered fleshy trichome-like structures, these often drying black. Leaves suborbicular to ovate in outline, deeply 3-7-lobed, 10-20 cm long, cordate basally, the lobes ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers solitary or in 3-12-flowered cymose clusters, covered with fleshy trichomes; sepals oblong, 10-14 mm long, obtuse, subcoriaceous, covered with fleshy trichomes; corollas pink to lavender, salverform, the tube 5-6 cm long, the limb campanulate to subrotate. Fruits capsular, subglobose to depressed- globose, 1.5-2 cm in diameter; seeds co-mose.
Habit	Vines
Note	Ipomoea setosa flowers in January.
Distribution	ranges from Mexico to South America.
Note	This is the only species outside the Calonyction group with light colored salverform corollas; the flowers open after midnight and close shortly after dawn. Since it is self-compatible, the seed set is high. The species is widely spread around the world.
Specimen	LOS SANTOS: 10 mi. N Tonosi, Tyson et al. 2950 (MO).