Ipomoea
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Convolvulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Twining, creeping vines or rarely shrubs, usually with abundant milky latex. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades simple, entire, lobed, palmately or pinnately compound; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, solitary or in axillary simple or dichasial cymes; peduncles slender or thick, shorter or longer than the petioles. Calyx of 5 equal or unequal sepals, free to the base; corolla campanulate. infundibuliform, or hypoerateriform, the limb entire to deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5. inserted or rarely exserted, the filaments usually unequal, the anthers lanceolate; ovary superior, 2-4-locular, the style solitary with a subglobose or biglobose stigma. Fruits capsular, 4-valvate, ovoid or globose; seeds 4 per fruit, with two sides flat and one convex, glabrous or pubescent. A pantropical genus of about 500 species.