A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World
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Wood, John R. I.
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Munoz-Rodriguez, Pablo
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Williams, Bethany R. M.
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Scotland, Robert W.
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Ipomoea wolcottiana
Rose
, Gard. & Forest 7: 367. 1894. (Rose 1894: 367)
Ipomoea calva
House
, Bot. Gaz. 43
: 410. 1907. (House 1907b: 410). Type. MEXICO. Guerrero, La Junta,
E.W. Nelson
6992 (holotype US00111373).
Ipomoea calodendron
O'Donell
, Lilloa 23
: 480. 1950. (
O'Donell
1950b: 480). Type. PERU. [Piura], valley of
Rio
Quiros
,
Weberbauer 6396
(holotype US00111371, isotype F, NY).
Ipomoea wolcottiana
subsp.
calodendron
(
O'Donell
) McPherson
, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 68
(4): 544. 1981. (McPherson 1981: 544).
Type.
MEXICO. Colima, Manzanillo,
E. Palmer 1342
(holotype US00111492, isotypes BM, GH, K, NY).
Description.
Tree to 13 m, the trunk up to 30 cm wide and with milky sap, stems shortly puberulent or glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 4-15
x
2.3-9 cm, ovate, acuminate, very shortly mucronate, shallowly cordate to truncate at base, adaxially thinly pubescent to glabrous, abaxially pubescent to obscurely puberulent on veins; petioles 1.5-4.5 cm, slender, glabrous. Inflorescence usually pendent of single flowers or several borne on short branches, sometimes with reduced leaves, peduncles 1-4 mm; bracteoles 2-6 mm, lanceolate, caducous; pedicels 6-24 mm; sepals subequal, 6-12(-15)
x
6-7(-8) mm, elliptic, obtuse, abaxially finely puberulent to almost glabrous, adaxially pubescent, margins somewhat scarious; corolla 5-6(-9) cm long, white with dark red throat, glabrous except pubescent tips of the midpetalline bands, limb 5-5.5 cm diam.; stamens 12-30 mm long; stigma globose to elongate. Capsules ellipsoid, 20
x
10 mm, glabrous; seeds 8-10
x
3-4 mm. long-pilose on margins. Reported to be a night flowering species.
Illustration.
Figure
9B
.
Distribution.
Dry, deciduous forest in scattered disjunct locations from Peru through Central America to southern Mexico at relatively low altitudes of 50-900 m,
PERU. Piura
: Tondopa-Ayabaca,
A. Gentry et al.
75132 (MO); Paita,
O. Haught
60a (F, US); Cerro Viento,
O. Haught
201 (F, US).
ECUADOR. Loja
:
A. Samaniengo & F. Vivar
022 (US).
EL SALVADOR.
Santa Ana,
Metapan
,
J. Monterrosa
92 (BM); La Libertad,
K. Sidwell et al.
512 (BM, MO);
A. Munro et al.
3676 (BM).
HONDURAS.
Cox & Guzman
254 (MO), fide D.F. Austin.
GUATEMALA.
H. Pittier
1859 (US), fide D.F. Austin.
MEXICO. Chiapas
:
A. Reyes
Garcia
et al.
1483 (BM, MEXU).
Colima
: Ixtlahuacan,
M. Navarrete de la Paz
799 (MEXU).
Guerrero
: Papanoa,
E.
Langlasse
736 (GH, K, P, US); Tierra Colorada,
H. Kruse
2373 (MEXU).
Jalisco
: Chamela,
S. Bullock
905 (MEXU); La Huerta,
S. Bullock
1068 (MEXU, MO); ibid.,
J.
Calonico
7732 (MEXU).
Michoacan
:
Aguila
,
A. Lozano & M.A.
Garcia
7099 (MEXU); El Camalote,
E. Carranza & I. Silva
6690 (IEB, MEXU).
Oaxaca
: Tehuantepec,
M. Elorsa
7781 (MEXU); Santiago Astata, Chacalapa,
C.E. Hughes & M. Elorsa
1911 (FHO, MEXU).
Puebla
:
C.
Rojas-Martinez
85 (MEXU).
Tabasco
: fide McPherson (1981).
Veracruz
: Cerro Gordo,
J. Dorantes et al.
01757 (MEXU); Chicuasen,
S. Avendano et al
. 45 (K, MEXU)
Note.
McPherson (1981) recognised two subspecies but these are poorly defined morphologically and are not recognised here.