Ipomoea indica

Ipomoea indica

Ipomoea indica is a species of the genus of morning glories (Ipomoea ) from the family of wind plants ( Convolvulaceae ). The species is distributed worldwide.

Description

Ipomoea indica is a twining, sometimes prostrate, herbaceous plant that is more hairy on the axial parts or less densely with backward tomentose trichomes. The stems can be 3 to 6 inches long and sometimes roots at the nodes. The leaves are petiolate with 2 to 18 cm long petioles. The leaf blade is ovate or round, 5 to 15 cm long and 3.5 cm to 14 cm wide. The underside is densely hairy with short, soft trichomes, the top is hairy, more or less sparse. The base is heart-shaped, the leaf margin is entire or three-lobed, the tip is sharpened or pointed abruptly.

The inflorescences are dense umbel -like cymes of some flowers. The inflorescence stems are 4-20 cm long. The bracts are linear or sometimes lanceolate. The flower stalks are 2 to 5 (rarely to 8 mm ) long. The sepals are nearly equal multiform, 1.4 to 2.2 cm long and slowly tapered linear. They are glabrous to tomentose fitting, the outer three sepals are lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, the inner two are narrow lanceolate. The crown is funnel-shaped, 5-8 cm long, glabrous, bright blue or bluish purple, at the age they are reddish purple or red. The center of the crown is slightly paler. The stamens and the stamp are not beyond the crown. The ovary is glabrous. The scar is three-lobed.

The fruits are more or less spherical capsules with a diameter of 1 to 1.3 cm. The seeds are about 5 mm in size.

Dissemination

The species is native to South America, but is cultivated as circumtropisch before and feral plant.