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Accession Data:

Ipomoea horsfalliae Hook.

  • subg. Eriospermum sect. Eriospermum subsect. Eriospermum

  • Common Name: Cardinal Creeper
  • Family: Convolvulaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: West Indies

  • Description: Habit: A large, glabrous twiner. Stems terete, the adult parts woody, lenticellate. Leaves orbicular in outline, 5- 20 by 5-20 cm, deeply palmately lobed to beyond the middle or to the base into 3-5 segments; middle segment mostly much larger than the lateral ones, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, mostly attenuate towards both ends, acuminate at the apex with acute or obtusish, mucronulate point; lateral segments ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; margins of segments slightly crisped, entire or coarsely dentate to crenate; petiole shorter than the blade, 2½- 13 cm. Inflorescences axillary, 8-30 cm long, few- to several-flowered; peduncle 1½- 14 cm, widely cymosely branched. Pedicels as long as or longer than the sepals, 8- 15 mm. Flowers: Sepals subequal or the outer ones slightly shorter, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, concave, 7-10 mm long, green at the base, for the rest red-purple or purplish black. Corolla red or red-purple, salver-shaped, the tube slightly angular, somewhat narrowed to the base, ca 4 cm long, ca 1 cm diam.; limb ca 4--4½ cm diam., 5-lobed with rounded lobes. Stamens and style exserted; filaments pale purple, densely villous at the base; style white, stigma dark purple, ovary glabrous. Capsules rarely formed. 3
  • USDA Zone: 9a-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500666
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1215 - AUS:West Bench SS
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-15-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Solanales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Convolvulaceae
  • SubFamily: Convolvuloideae
  • Tribe: Ipomoeeae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Plants with Extrafloral Nectaries

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, 04 April, 2019.
  2. Ipomoea horsfalliae at ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Thursday, 04 April, 2019.
  3. Convolvulaceae Unlimited. Last accessed on Thursday, 04 April, 2019.

data regenerated on Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:57:06 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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W/C = Wild Collected
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