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MC040 : Ipomoea arachnosperma Welw.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory
Species : Ipomoea arachnosperma Welw.
Plant Location in Melghat : Koktu  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Convolvulus dichrous R. & S.
Convolvulus pilosus Roxb.
Ipomoea dichroa (R. & S. Choisy.
Ipomoea pilosa (Roxb.) Sweet.
Description : Extensive hairy twimers. Leaves 3-lobed. Flowers pink with glandular calyz. Seed Balck, Cottony. Hairy Little Bell is an annual creeper with stems prostrate or twining, up to 2.3 m long, densely covered with white or yellow hairs. Leaves are deeply 3-lobed, rarely entire, 5-13 cm long, 6-13 cm wide. Tip is pointed or long-pointed, base is heart-shaped. Leaves are thin, green, but bristly-hairy above, densely white-cottony beneath. Leaf stalk is 4-7 cm long. Flowers arise several in lax or dense cymes which are carried on 1.5-7 cm long stalks. Bracts are 7 mm long and 2 mm wide. Sepals are lanceshaped, 1.2-2.2 cm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, bristly or setose and glandular. Flowers are pink or mauve, 1.2-2.0 cm long, velvety above. Capsule is ovoid, 8 mm long, velvety above. Seeds are velvety-white (rarely quite hairless) and black, ovoid, 4.5 mm long. Hairy Little Bell is found in India and Africa.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :