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Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet

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Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Sweet
L.
(L.) Sweet
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species
Ipomoea pes-caprae

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pes-caprae

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Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet

Glab. prostrate or trailing branched woody plant with stems up to ± 10 m. long, rooting at intervals. Lvs on petioles up to ± 10 cm. long; lamina (2)-5-(10) cm. diam., broad-oblong to suborbicular, thick, fleshy, emarginate to bluntly 2-lobed. Peduncles 1-3-fld. Sepals ovate, obtuse; corolla ± 4 cm. diam., light purple to pink. Capsule ± 15 mm. diam., ovoid-globose, 2-loculed. Seeds 2-4, villous.

Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet

Deeply tap-rooted glabrous perennial. Stems prostrate, trailing, to c. 10-(20) m long, rooting at nodes, terete. Petiole to c. 11 cm long, usually erect. Lamina 4-12-(17) × 3.5-12-(15) cm, broad-oblong to suborbicular, entire, thick; base cuneate to truncate; apex emarginate or shallowly 2-lobed. Infl. 1-several-flowered; peduncles 3- c. 15 cm long; pedicels 1-3 cm long. Sepals 8-12 mm long, unequal, ovate, obtuse. Corolla 3-5 × (4)-4.5-5-(5.5) cm, funnelform, pink with an irregular rose band inside around the base of the limb. Stamens included. Capsule c. 2 cm long, globose-ovoid. Seeds 2-4, brownish tomentose.

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Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet

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Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Penrhyn
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet
Cook Islands
Rarotonga

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8e83aba1-2ff5-4e1d-b1d0-2c126d58fab1
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 October 2023
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