| Dicotyledon | Literature for Ipomoea cairica
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Convolvulaceae -- The Dodder, Morning Glory Family | Bibliography |
| Ipomoea cairica | |
Common name(s): morning glory, ivy-leaved morning glory, koali, koali `ai, koali `ai`ai (Ni`ihau), koali lau manamana, kowali, pa`ali`i |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to tropical Africa and Asia.In the Hawaiian Islands, a Polynesian introduction on Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Vines; stems twining or sometimes prostrate, herbaceous but woody toward base, up to 4 m or more long, smooth or muricate, glabrous or rarely villous at nodes. |
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| Leaves |
Leaf blades chartaceous, ovate to orbicular in outline, 3-10 cm long and wide, palmately divided, usually to base into 5-7 lobes, the lobes lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, 3-5 cm long, apex acute or obtuse and mucronulate, outer lobes sometimes bifid, glabrous, petioles up to ca. 2/3 as long as blades, pseudostipules present. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers 1 to numerous in lax dichasia, peduncles 5-80 mm long, pedicels 12-30 mm long; sepals ovate, 4-6.5 mm long, outer ones slightly shorter, glabrous, ± verrucose, margins scarious, apex obtuse to acute, mucronulate; corolla purple, bluish purple, or white with a purple center, funnelform, (3-)4.5-6 cm long. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules brown, subglobose, 1-1.2 cm long, glabrous. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds black to tan, subglobose to ovoid, 4-6 mm long, densely short-tomentose, sometimes with long silky hairs along the margins. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 30 |
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