Ipomoea passifloroides House

Wood, John R. I., Munoz-Rodriguez, Pablo, Williams, Bethany R. M. & Scotland, Robert W., 2020, A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World, PhytoKeys 143, pp. 1-823 : 1

188. Ipomoea passifloroides House , Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 18 (6): 230. 1908. (House 1908b: 230)

Type.

CUBA. [ Guantánamo], Sierra Maestra, Jiquarito Mountain, 2400 ft, 18 Sept. 1906, N. Taylor 504 (holotype NY00111090).

Description.

Villous twining perennial. Leaves petiolate, 3-7 × 3-7.5 cm, broadly ovate, cordate, mostly 3-lobed (except leaves at extremities), auricles rounded, apex obtuse and mucronate, velvety-tomentose on both surfaces, abaxially paler and brownish; petioles 8-25 mm, tomentose. Inflorescence of compact axillary cymes; peduncles short, 0.7-1.7 cm, tomentose; bracteoles 6-8 mm, oblong-ovate, obtuse, tomentose; secondary peduncles 2-3 mm; pedicels 3-4 mm, densely hirsute; sepals subequal, 7-9 × 3-4 mm, elliptic to suborbicular, coriaceous, scarious-margined, pubescent at base, glabrous apically; corolla 4-5 cm long, campanulate to funnel-shaped, strongly ventricose above base, glabrous, deep pink, the limb 2-2.5 cm diam., weakly lobed. Capsules ovoid, 11-12 × 9-10 mm, dark brown, glabrous; seeds 3 × 2.5 mm; pubescent, the angles long-pilose with hairs c. 7-8 mm long.

Distribution.

Restricted to the Sierra Maestra in the east of Cuba and the island of Grand Cayman.

CUBA. Sierra Maestra, Alcarraza River, Bro. Clemente 5075 (HAC, NY); A. Gentry & Lewis 50981 (MO, FTG); J. Acuña 7731 (HAC); Moncada & Machado 1766 (HAC); M. López Figueiras 40380 (HAC), 2316 (HAC), 380 (HAJB), 388 (HAJB). Holguin: El Uvero, J. Bisse & H. Lippold (HAJB 14474).

GRAND CAYMAN. NW of East End Village, G.R. Proctor & J. Lane 47346 (FTG).

Note.

This species is distinguished by its 3-lobed leaves, which are abaxially velvety pubescent. The corolla is pink.