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Ipomoea purpurea
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Family:
CONVOLVULACEAE
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Citation: Ipomoea purpurea ( L. ) Roth, Bot. Abh. 27. 1787; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 200. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 919(645). 1923.
Convolvulus purpureus L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1: 219. 1762.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Common morning-glory
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Description:
Vines; the stems slender and herbaceous; annual, pilose hirsute with spreading trichomes. Leaves broadly ovate to cordate, 2-10 cm long, entire or trilobate, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescences of 1-5 flowered cymose clusters. Flowers on pedicels 8-15 mm long, recurved in fruit; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 8-16 mm long, apically abruptly acute, hirsute on the basal portion; corolla blue, purple, pink, or with stripes of these colors on a white background, the stripes occasionally broken, throat white, 3-5 cm long. Fruits capsular, depressed-globose, 10 mm long; seeds black, pyriform, glabrous.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Introduced as a garden plant, also running wild
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Distribution:
Native of tropical 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):
Pink, 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:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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