Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual herb, twining or occasionally prostrate. Stems up to 2.5m long, densely covered with white to yellowish bristly hairs. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate in outline, up to 18.5 × 17.5 cm, deeply 3-lobed, rarely entire, bristly hairy above, densely white-woolly below; petiole 4-10 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, several-flowered on a peduncle up to 7 cm long. Calyx densely bristly hairy, Corolla relatively small (c. 2 cm), funnel-shaped, pink or mauve with a darker centre. Capsule ovoid, softly hairy above.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ipomoea dichroa Hochst. ex Choisy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147660
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Widespread in tropical Africa, Namibia, and Mpumalanga, South Africa. Also in India.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ipomoea dichroa Hochst. ex Choisy Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=147660
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
