| Ipomoea hederacea (L.) Jacq. it is an annual plant climbers, densely to scattered pubescent with large tri chomes throughout. Leaves cordate-ovate, entire or 3-lobed, 4-15 cm long, basally cordate, apically acuminate to acute, pubescent. Flowers in 1-to few-flowered cymes. Sepals long-lanceolate, 20-30 mm long, abruptly narrowed and spreading or curved at least in fruit, usually with some long erect trichomes on the base. Corolla lavender to blue with a white centre in wild plants, varying to red or purple in cultivated races, 3-5 cm long. Fruit capsular, subglobose to globose, 8-10 mm long. Seeds pyriform, black. Life Form: Th,Cli, Flowering in:———-, Vern:————, Phytochoria: Tro.+S.Tro., The native range of this species is Mexico. Notes: ntroduced in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:268998-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/268998-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000747944, https://www.gbif.org/species/2928538, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/140042/ipomoea-hederacea-jacq, https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_126, https://www.invasive.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=3030, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/IPOHED/, https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=3994&clid=3311, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/ipomoea/hederacea/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi Derna 2017 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| ———————————————————————– | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses , Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil | Vegetation Wadi Derna 2017 |
