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Ipomoea parasitica
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Ipomoea parasitica (Kunth) G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 275. 1837-1838; Biju, Rheedea 12: 76. 2002.
Convolvulus parasiticus Kunth, Nov. Gen. & Sp. Pl. 3: 103. 1819.
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Description:
Annual vines; stem twining, woody at base, herbaceous towards tip, usually muricate, glabrous, terete, hollow. Leaves alternate, simple, 4-22 x 3-20 cm, ovate to deltoid, apically acuminate, mucronulate, basally cordate (rarely truncate), glabrous below, sparsely pilose above; midrib and lateral nerves raised beneath; petiole up to 30 cm long, puberulous. Flowers in axillary, few to several (up to 30) flowered cymes; peduncle up to 25 cm long, pubescent, terete; bracts small, linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 x 1 mm; pedicels short, 2-2.5 cm long, pubescent, slightly dilated above. Sepals 5, more or less same size, outer 2 elliptic, 4-5 x 3 mm, apiculate, pilose outside, glabrous inside, scarious, inner 3 elliptic-oblong to widely ovate, 5x 3-3.5 mm, apiculate, pilose only on outerside of midrib, glabrous inside, scarious. Corolla purple, throat whitish, campanulate, tube up to 4 cm long, white, mouth up to 3.5 cm across, slightly 5-lobed. Stamens inserted; anthers up to 3 mm long; filaments white, attached 7 mm above the corolla base, subequal, 2 long up to 1.1 cm, 3 short up to 0.9 cm long, white ciliolate at base. Ovary conical, 1 x 1 mm, glabrous; disc small, annular; style inserted, up to 1.3 cm long, glabrous; stigma bilobed, 1 x 2 mm, papillate. Fruits capsular, broadly ovate to globular, 1.8-2 x 1.5-1.9 cm, with persistent style base; pedicels enlarged and recurved; fruiting sepals slightly enlarged and reflexed; seeds 4, ovate to elliptic, 8-9 x 6-7 mm, glabrous to pubescent, black.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-January
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District(s):
Kottayam, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Waste places and along roadsides
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Distribution:
Mexico through Central and South America
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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):
Blue
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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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Endemic to:
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