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MC047 : Ipomoea triloba L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 39  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory
Species : Ipomoea triloba L.
Plant Location in Melghat : Amravati proper  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Little Bell, Little bell morning glory, Pink convolvulus, Three-lobe morning glory
 
Synonym : Batatas triloba (L.) Choisy
Convolvulus heterophyllus Sessé & Moc.
Convolvulus trilobus (L.) Desr.
Ipomoea blancoi Choisy
Ipomoea eustachiana Jacq.
Ipomoea galapagensis Andersson
Ipomoea triloba var. quinquefolia Kuntze
Description : Little Bell is a small, herbaceous twiner, often on grasses or low shrubs, not high-climbing, with milky sap. The flowers are rather small for morning glories. Leaves are heart-shaped, fine-tipped, entire or 3-lobed, mostly 2-5 cm long (but up to 12 cm), longer than wide. Leaf stalk is as long as blade or longer by half. Stems are somewhat angled, hairless or velvet-hairy. Flowers 1 or few on stalks as much as 10 cm long. Sepals are lance-like. Flower tube is 5-lobed, funnel-shaped, 1.5 cm long. Flower color is variable around the world. In India it is light pink with a deep red-violet. Stamens remain inside the flower tube. Little bell is probably native to West Indies, but now naturalized throughout the tropical world.
 
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Reference : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :