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Ipomoea tuberculata
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Ipomoea tuberculata Ker-Gawl. in Edwards, Bot. Reg. 1. t. 86. 1816.
Ipomoea dasysperma Jacq., Eclog. Pl. 1: 132. t. 89. 1816; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 215. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 918(645). 1923.
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Description:
Vines; the stems slender, smooth or tuberculate; annual, glabrous. Leaves round in outline, biternately or digitately 5-9-lobed, upto 12 cm long, the lobes linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, 3-8 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, with pseudostipules. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, on peduncles 2.5-7 cm long. Flowers with pedicels upto 1 cm long, woody, clavate; sepals orbicular to elliptic ovate, obtuse, smooth or verruculose, somewhat unequal, the outer 3 shorter and broader, 6-12 mm long, gibbous and 1-2 tuberculate at the base; corolla yellow or white with a purple centre, funnelform to almost salverform, with a narrowed tube, 5-10 cm long. Fruits capsular, globose, 6-11 mm long; seeds subglobose-trigonous, brown, 5 mm long, with appressed pubescence and occasionally with long trichomes on the angles.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
June-October
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Degraded moist deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India and Japan
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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):
Yellow
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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:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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