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Ipomoea horsfalliae
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Ipomoea horsfalliae Hook.f., Bot. Mag. t. 3315. 1834.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Cardinal Creeper
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Description:
Vines; the stems twining, glabrous, becoming woody with age, lenticellate; perennial. Leaves orbicular in outline, 5-20 cm long and wide, deeply palmately lobed to beyond the middle or to the base into 3-5 segments, middle segment usually larger than laterals, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, mostly attenuate towards both ends, acuminate apically with an acute or obtuse, mucronulate point, the lateral segments ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, margins of segments slightly crisped, entire or coarsely dentate to crenate. Inflorescences axillary, few- to several-flowered, widely cymosely branched, the peduncle 1.5-14 cm long. Flowers with pedicels 8-15 mm long; sepals subequal or the outer slightly shorter, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, concave, 7-10 mm long; corolla red or red-purple, salverform, the tube about 4 cm long, the limb 4-4.5 cm wide, stamens and style exserted.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of West Indies
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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