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Ipomoea violacea
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Ipomoea violacea L., Sp. Pl. 161. 1753.
Ipomoea tuba (Schl.) G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 271. 1837-1838; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 274. 1984.
Convolvulus tuba Schlecht. in Linnaea 6: 735. 1831.
Ipomoea grandiflora sensu Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 198. 1883, non Lam. 1791.
Ipomoea macrantha Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 251. 1819; Sivar., Geobios 2: 122. 1975; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 184. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 480. 1990.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Heavenly Blue Morning Glory
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Description:
Large, glabrous twiners. Leaves simple, alternate, to 22 x 10 cm, broadly ovate-acuminate at apex, deeply cordate at base, with rounded lobes. Flowers 1-3, greenish-white, on long axillary peduncles. Sepals orbicular, rounded at apex, glabrous, accrescent, clasping the fuits when young, deflexed later. Petals funnel-shaped, white, tube to 15 cm long. Stamens and style included; capsule subglobose, 2 cm across; seeds 4, black, with dense, minute pubescence all over with longer, sericeous shaggy hairs on the margins.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-October
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District(s):
Kollam, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Scrub jungles near sea coast and mangroves
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Distribution:
Pantropical
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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):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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