Tropicos | Name - !Ipomoea philomega (Vell.) House

Published In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 18(6): 246. 1908. (Ann. New York Acad. Sci.)

Synonymy

Aniseia syringifolia Dammer
Convolvulus philomega Vell.
Ipomoea capparoides Choisy
Ipomoea cardiosepala Meisn.
Ipomoea costaricensis Kuntze
Ipomoea demerariana Choisy
Ipomoea macrophylla Choisy
Ipomoea macrophylla var. selloana Meisn.
Ipomoea paraensis Peter
Ipomoea philomega var. marowynensis Ooststr.

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/12/2017)

Acceptance : Accepted

Checklist 2018 onwards (Last Modified On 4/30/2024)

Updates by: Ulloa Ulloa, Carmen; Jørgensen, Peter Møller

Reason(s) for update(s): Added VPA Geography, Changed or added synonymy, Added Reference(s)

Geography: Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

Countries (within Regions): Belize, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, U.S. Virgin Islands

Habit: Liana

Reference(s):

Baksh-Comeau, Y. S., Maharaj, C. D. Adams, S. A. Harris, D. Filer & W. Hawthorne. 2016. An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical ‘hotspots’. Phytotaxa 250: 1–431.
Wood, J. R. I., P. Muñoz Rodríguez, B. R. M. Williams & R. W. Scotland. 2020. A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World. PhytoKeys 143: 1–823.
Zuloaga, F. O., M. J. Belgrano & C. A. Zanotti. 2019. Actualización del Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Darwiniana, n.s. 7(2): 208–278 [Apéndice 1: 1–937; Apénd. 2: 1–21].
Brazil Flora Group. (eds.) 2023 onward. Flora e funga do Brasil.

Notes: ~Ipomoea demerariana~ Choisy was placed in synonymy here by Wood et al. (2020) and as a synonym of ~Operculina ventricosa~ (Bertero) Peter by Staples et al. (2020). Wood et al. (2020) argues that the type is ~Ipomoea~, while a second collection from Barbados belongs to ~Operculina~.

Checklist 2017 (Last Modified On 10/12/2017)

Geography: Mexico, West Indies, Central America, Venezuela, Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil

Lower Taxa

Ipomoea philomega var. marowynensis Ooststr. = Ipomoea philomega (Vell.) House