Ipomoea crassipes Hook.
var. crassipes

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Synonyms:	Aniseia calystegioides Choisy Ipomoea adumbrata Rendle & Britten Ipomoea bellecomans Rendle Ipomoea calystegioides E. Mey. ex Drege Ipomoea calystegioides Choisy Ipomoea crassipes Hook. var. shirensis Baker Ipomoea greenstockii Rendle Ipomoea oblongata Dammer Ipomoea sarmentacea Rendle Ipomoea ukambensis Vatke
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with several creeping or erect stems, up to 1.2 m long, growing from a woody rootstock. Most parts densely, softly hairy or almost hairless. Leaves very variable in shape and size, usually ovate, elliptic truncate, rounded, subcordate or slightly hastate at the base, covered in long fulvous hairs on both Surfaces or sometimes hairless; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in small heads on a peduncle 2-7 cm long. Bracts linear to ovate, leaf-like, 0.3-2 cm long, hairy. Sepals unequal, ovate, drawn out to a narrow pointed apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, outer 1-2.5 cm long, inner shorter and narrower. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, red or white with a darker purple centre, 3-3.5 cm long, mid-petaline areas distinctly edged by raised veins, shortly hairy towards the apex. Capsule globose, hairless.
Notes:	A very variable species.
Derivation of specific name:	crassipes: thick-footed or thick-stalked
Habitat:	In woodland, savanna, grassland and on sandy soils.
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Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.
Botswana distribution:	N,SE
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 27 July 2016
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 34. As Ipomoea oblongata Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. As Ipomoea crassipes Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. As Ipomoea oblongata Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 69 - 70. Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 264. (Includes a picture). 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 36. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 50. as Ipomoea crassipes

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