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Ipomoea muricata (L.) Jacq.:
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
Peru (South America)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
India (Asia)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)

Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Man. Vasc. Pl. Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1493
Pontiroli, A. 1983. Asclepiadaceae in A. L. Cabrera. Fl. Prov. Jujuy 13(8): 116–175. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/43714
Hammel, B. E. 2010. Convolvulaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 119: 72–126. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100003903
Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. (editores generales) 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 4(2): ined. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/100002235

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Ipomoea calderonii Standl.:
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)

SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002

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Convolvulus muricatus L.:
India (Asia)

SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002

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Ipomoea muricata Cav.:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)

SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
Macbride, J. F. 1959. Convolvulaceae, Flora of Peru. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(5/1): 455–536. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1344

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Ipomoea turbinata Lag.:
Argentina (South America)
Burma (Asia)
Ecuador (South America)
India (Asia)
Japan (Asia)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Nepal (Asia)
Peru (South America)
Philippines (Asia)
Pakistan (Asia)
Sri Lanka (Asia)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
Vietnam (Asia)
Bolivia (South America)
China (Asia)

Anonymous. 1986. List-Based Rec., Soil Conserv. Serv., U.S.D.A. Database of the U.S.D.A., Beltsville. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1103
Killeen, T. J. & T. S. Schulenberg. 1998. A biological assessment of Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia. RAP Working Papers 10: 1–372. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1012086
Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55: 1–584. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1033072
Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. 2008. Nuev. Cat. Fl. Vas. Venezuela 1–860. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1033110
Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: i–viii, 1–1181. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/42250
Flora of China Editorial Committee. 1995. Fl. China 16: 1–479. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1018513
Austin, D. F. & Z. Huamán. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45(1): 3–38. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1011492
Austin, D. F. 1982. 165. Convolvulaceae. 15: 1–98. In G. W. Harling & B. B. Sparre (eds.) Fl. Ecuador. University of Göteborg and Swedish Museum of Natural history, Göteborg and Stockholm. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/27445

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National Distribution

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United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Global Range: FL: Leon county. Mexico, Venezuela, Tanzania, India. Pantropic, adventive in the temperate zone including the US.

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Distribution

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Thought to be a native of the New World tropies, now pantropical.

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Physical Description

Morphology

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Gunn (Brittonia 24: 150-168. 1972) discussed the nomenclature of Ipomoea turbinata, which was treated in Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. as Calonyction muricatum, presented evidence refuting the generic status for Calonyction, and recognized the latter as a section of Ipomoea.

Gunn reported that the young seeds, fruits, and thickened pedicels of Ipomoea turbinata are eaten as a vegetable in China and Sri Lanka, and the species is cultivated in India for its edible pedicels or as an ornamental for its nocturnal flowers. In China, the leaves are used in treating stomachaches and the seeds for treating trauma.

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Elevation Range

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910-1400 m

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Description

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Herbs annual, twining; axial parts often tuberculate, glabrous or nearly so; sap milky. Stems 2-10 m. Petiole 4-12 cm; leaf blade cordate, 7-18 X 6.5-15 cm, base cordate, margin entire, apex acute or caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences 1- to few flowered; peduncle 3-6 cm; bracts oblong, ca. 8 mm, scarious. Pedicel 1-2 cm, thicker apically, much thickened in fruit. Flowers nocturnal. Sepals oblong to ovate, ± equal, fleshy, glabrous, distinctly enlarged in fruit and eventually reflexed; outer 2 sepals 6-8 mm, apex attenuate into a thick, suberect awn ca. 4 mm; inner 3 sepals 7-8 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, awn shorter. Corolla pale purple, salverform, 5-7.5 cm; tube 3-6 cm, flaring apically; limb funnelform to rotate, 3-5 cm in diam., shallowly 5-lobed. Stamens slightly exserted or not; filaments inserted in apical part of corolla tube, base sparsely short pubescent; anthers large, base cordate. Pistil slightly exserted or not; ovary glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 1.8-2 cm, mucronate. Seeds black, trigonous, 9-10 mm, glabrous. 2n = 30.

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Diagnostic Description

Synonym

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Calonyction longiflorum Hasskarl; C. muricatum (Lin-naeus) G. Don; C. speciosum Choisy var. muricatum (Lin-naeus) Choisy; Convolvulus colubrinus Blanco; C. muricatus Linnaeus; Ipomoea bonanox Linnaeus var. purpurascens Ker Gawler; I. muricata (Linnaeus) Jacquin.

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Type Information

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Holotype for Ipomoea calderonii Standl.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): S. Calderón
Year Collected: 1922
Locality: San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America

Holotype: Standley, P. C. 1924. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 242.

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Ecology

Habitat

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Comments: Bottomland woods.

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Habitat & Distribution

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Thickets, floodlands; 600-1200 m. Cultivated in Henan, Hubei, Hunan, escaped in S Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Japan, Kashmir, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam; Africa, North America, South America]

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Conservation

Conservation Status

National NatureServe Conservation Status

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United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

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NatureServe Conservation Status

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Rounded Global Status Rank: GU - Unrankable

Reasons: Native range not clear. The distribution is closely associated with human activities.

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