Ipomoea repanda Jacq.

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

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Ipomoea repanda Jacq.
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199. Ipomoea repanda Jacq. View in CoL View at ENA , Enum. Syst. Pl. 13. 1760. (Jacquin 1760: 13)

Convolvulus repandus (Jacq.) Desr. , Encycl. 3: 555. 1789 [pub. 1792]. (Desrousseaux 1792: 555).

Exogonium repandum (Jacq.) Choisy , Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 8: 128[50]. 1838. (Choisy 1838: 128[50]).

Quamoclit repanda (Jacq.) Roberty , Candollea 14: 41. 1952. (Roberty 1952: 41).

Ipomoea eriosperma Berthel. ex Spreng. , Syst. Veg. 1: 598. 1825 [pub. 1824]. (Sprengel 1824: 598), nom. illeg., non Ipomoea eriosperma P. Beauv. (1819) . Type. GUADELOUPE. C.L.G. Bertero s.n. (lectotype TO, isolectotype M0184975).

Type.

Icon, t. 20 in Jacquin, Sel. Stirp. Amer. (1763), designated by Austin (1978a: 336).

Description.

Twining liana to several metres; stems woody, glabrous, pale, reported to have abundant white latex. Leaves petiolate, 5-13 × 3-10 cm, deltoid, base rounded, truncate or cordate, apex acuminate, margin undulate, both surfaces glabrous; petioles 2-9.5 cm. Inflorescence of pedunculate axillary cymes; peduncles 2.5-7 cm; bracteoles caducous; secondary peduncles 12-15 mm; pedicels 5-15 mm; sepals subequal, 6-7(-8) × 4 mm, ovate to suborbicular, obtuse (outer) to rounded (inner), reddish, glabrous, the margins scarious; corolla 4-4.5 cm long, subcylindrical but slightly widened upwards, curved, red, glabrous, limb deeply divided with oblong, apiculate lobes c. 3-4 × 1.5 cm; stamens shortly exserted. Capsules ovoid, 14 × 8 mm, shortly rostrate, glabrous; seeds 8 × 5 mm, shortly pilose on the margins.

Illustration.

Figures 8B View Figure 8 , 103 View Figure 103 ; Acevedo-Rodríguez (2005: 176).

Distribution.

Widely distributed from the eastern part of Hispaniola through Puerto Rico and south through the Windward Islands to Tobago. It grows in moist forest and around mogotes. Absent from Barbados and Trinidad.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Peninsula Samaná, Pan de Azúcar, E.L. Ekman H15176 (S); A.H. Liogier 5 (P).

PUERTO RICO. F. Axelrod & L. Pérez 8375 (K); Maricao, P. Sintenis 289 (K, BM, P, S); Sierra de Luquillo, R.A. Howard 16812 (A, BM, MO, P, S); T.G. Hartley 13328 (MO, P).

LESSER ANTILLES. U.S. Virgin Islands: St John, G. Prance et al. 29343 (BM, NY); ibid., P. Acevedo-Rodríguez 3123 (MO, NY), 2839 (NY); St Thomas, H.F.A. von Eggers 253 (K); ibid., C.H. Ostenfeld 150 (C, P). U.K. Virgin Islands: Tortola, C. Clubbe 15 (K); Fishlock 339 (K). Barbuda: fide Powell (1979). Antigua: Wullschlägel s.n. (S); Monks Head Hill, H.E. Box 1280 (BM, MO). Montserrat: Jubilee Mountain, R.A. Howard 19665 (BM, NY); M.A. Hamilton et al. 403 (K). Guadeloupe: A. Duss 2478 (MO, NY); C. Sastre et al. 4249 (P). Dominica: Glasham, D.H. Nicolson 2089 (BM, US); C. Whitefoord 5244 (BM); S.R. Hill et al. 25544 (NY). Martinique: L. Hahn 536 (BM, K, P); A. Duss 1890 (NY); C. Sastre 6570 (P). St Lucia: P. Beard 1068 (MO, S); Morne Tabac, G.R. Proctor 21573 (BM); R.A. Howard 19915 (NY). St Vincent: P. Beard 1354 (MO, S); H.H. & G.W. Smith 1301 (K, NY); Bequia fide Powell (1979). Grenada: K. Barbour et al. 93425 (BM); Mt. St. Catherine, G.R. Proctor 17257 (BM).

TRINIDAD. Tobago: J. Greg (BM).

Note.

Very similar to Ipomoea microdactyla but sepals 6-7(-8) mm, corolla narrowly tubular, curved. limb <1 cm long, deeply lobed with oblong-ovate, acute lobes.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Solanales

Family

Convolvulaceae

Genus

Ipomoea

Loc

Ipomoea repanda Jacq.

Wood, John R. I., Munoz-Rodriguez, Pablo, Williams, Bethany R. M. & Scotland, Robert W. 2020
2020
Loc

Ipomoea eriosperma

P. Beauv. 1819
1819