Ipomoea verbascoidea Choisy

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Christon Bank

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By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.

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Christon Bank

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Chedgelow Farm, near Harare Airport,

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Along Khami road at turn-off to Chesa Forest Land, Umguza District.

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Christon Bank

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By road to Harava Dam

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Mbizi Game Park

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Synonyms:	Ipomoea assumptae Mattei Ipomoea dammarana Rendle Ipomoea elliotii Baker
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Status:	Native
Description:	Suberect or climbing shrub, usually up to 1.5 m tall but occasionally climbing higher into surrounding vegetation. Most parts covered in yellowish to white woolly hairs. Leaves oblong to very broadly ovate, up to 18.5 cm long, sometimes cordate at the base, densely covered in woolly hairs below, sometimes almost hairless above; margin entire. Petiole 2-10 cm long with a gland on each side at the base of the lamina. Flowers 1-3 together, axillary. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-7 cm in diameter, mauve to rose-purple with a darker throat, occasionally white. Capsule oblong, ovoid or spherical, 20-25 mm long, leathery, hairless, dehiscing to show seeds covered in long, cotton-like white to yellowish-brown hairs.
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Habitat:	In woodland, bushland and grassland.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, DRC, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 271. Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 118 - 119. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 37. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 51. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 72. Verdcourt, B. (1967). New Convolvulaceae from the Flora Zambesiaca area-II Kirkia 6(1) Page 121.

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