Code
PHBPU
Growth form
Creeper
Biological cycle
annual
Habitat
terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Convolvuloides leucosperma Moench |
| synonym | Convolvuloides purpurea (L.) Moench |
| synonym | Convolvulus eriocaulos Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. |
| synonym | Convolvulus glandulifer (Ruiz & Pav.) Spreng. |
| synonym | Convolvulus intermedius (Schult.) Roem. & Schult. |
| synonym | Convolvulus major Hort. ex Nichols |
| synonym | Convolvulus mutabilis Salisb. |
| synonym | Convolvulus purpureus L. |
| synonym | Convolvulus schultesii Roem. & Schult. ex Steud. |
| synonym | Diatrema purpurea (L.) Rafin. |
| synonym | Ipomoea affinis M. Mart. & Gal. |
| synonym | Ipomoea burridgei Hort. |
| synonym | Ipomoea chanetii H. Lév. |
| synonym | Ipomoea discolor Jacq. |
| synonym | Ipomoea diversifolia Lindl. |
| synonym | Ipomoea erubescens Hort. ex Vilmorin |
| synonym | Ipomoea gerrardiana Rendle |
| synonym | Ipomoea githaginea Hochst. ex A. Rich. |
| synonym | Ipomoea glandulifera Ruiz & Pav. |
| synonym | Ipomoea hirsutula J. Jacq. |
| synonym | Ipomoea hirta T. Durand |
| synonym | Ipomoea hispida Zuccagni ex Roem. |
| synonym | Ipomoea intermedia Schult. |
| synonym | Ipomoea kermesina Hort. |
| synonym | Ipomoea mexicana A. Gray |
| synonym | Ipomoea nil Meisn. |
| synonym | Ipomoea pilosissima M. Mart. & Gal. |
| synonym | Ipomoea purpurea f. kermesina Voss |
| synonym | Ipomoea purpurea f. triloba Meisn. |
| synonym | Ipomoea purpurea var. diversifolia (Lindl.) O'Donell |
| synonym | Ipomoea purpurea var. purpurea |
| synonym | Ipomoea zuccagnii Roem. & Schult. |
| synonym | Pharbitis diversifolius Lindl. |
| synonym | Pharbitis githaginea Hochst. ex Choisy |
| synonym | Pharbitis hispida Choisy |
| synonym | Pharbitis nil var. diversifolia (Lindl.) Choisy |
| synonym | Pharbitis purpurea (L.) Lunell |
| synonym | Pharbitis purpurea (L.) Voigt |
| synonym | Pharbitis purpurea Asch. in Schweinf. |
🗒 Common Names
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| Créole Réunion |
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Ipomoea purpurea is a climbing much-branched plant and covered with long yellowish white hairs. It can measure up to 4 m long. The leaves are entire, large heart-shaped, pointed at the top. They are arranged alternately along the stem. They are widely stalked. They are slightly hairy above.The only hairy veins beneath. The flower is trumpet-shaped with wide variety of colors: blue, purple, pink or white. The fruit, globular in shape, is dry and contains black seeds shaped slice of orange.
Cotyledons
Cotyledons are long petiolate, 1.5 cm. The blade of a generally square almost 1.5 cm square at right base slightly cordate, apex deeply emarginate to bilobed. Trinerved at the base.
First leaves
Leaves are simple, alternate, petiolate. Base deeply cordate and top acuminate. Leave margin is entire, 3-5 palmate nerves from the base.
General habit
It is a climber, large vine highly branched, it grows up to 4 m long.
Underground system
Deep taproot.
Stem
Stem is slender, cylindrical, slightly ribbed, voluble, covered with long white to yellowish hair reflected.
Leaf
Leaves are simple, alternate, carried by a slender petiole, pubescent, 2 to 10 cm long and channeled to the upper part. Leaves are heart-shaped, 4 to 8 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, deeply cordate at the base, finely acuminate or obtuse at the top and slightly pubescent on the upper surface, the nerves hairy on the lower surface. The margin is entire. About 5-7 palmated nerves at the base.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence is axillary in cyme supported by a slender peduncle, often longer than the petiole and with long reflected hair. Cyme with 1 to 5 flowers.
Flower
The median flower carried by a stalk puberulous pedicel 2 to 3 cm (with a puberulous bract at the base). The lateral flowers are shorter pedicellate. During fruiting, the stalks curl into a helix. Calyx with 5 sepals lanceolate, acute at the apex, scarious, hispid at the base, persistent. Corolla campanulate hairless, 2.5 to 5 cm long and 4-6 cm in diameter, 5 petals welded expanded tube. 5 stamens fused to the tube of the corolla. Assorted colors is blue, purple, pink or white.
Fruit
Fruits are dehiscent capsules, spherical to ovoid shaped, 10 to 12 mm in diameter, greatly exceeded by the calyx. It may contain 6 seeds. It is brown at maturity.
Seed
Seeds are trigone, dorsal rounded, flat sides. 4 mm long and 3 mm wide. Seed coat is glabrous, punctate, black in color.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
No Data
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
Reproduction
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Ipomoea purpurea is an annual plant, which can only multiply by seeds.
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Morphology
Growth form
Liana
Liana climbing structure
Liana without tendril
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Type of prefoliation
Broad leaves
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Capsule splitting vertically in 3 carpels
Cotyledon type
bilobed
Lamina base
cordate
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
acute
acuminate
Upperface pilosity
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Glabrous
Simple leaf type
Lamina elliptic
Lamina section
embossed
Lamina Veination
Palmate
Flower color
Pinkish
Blue
Purple
Inflorescence type
Axillary solitary flower
Cyme
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Hairs reflected
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Climber
Distinction of Ipomoea species from flower color and leaf shape
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| flower color | leaf shape | flower size | species | |||
| red |
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cordate entire to trilobed with tines |
L 2,5-3 cm diam 2-2,5 cm |
Ipomoea hederifolia | ||
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pinnate |
L 3-3,5 cm diam 1,5-2 cm |
Ipomoea quamoclit | |||
| pink |
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hastate entire |
L 4-5 cm diam 5-8 cm |
Ipomoea aquatica | ||
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cordate trilobed |
L 2 cm diam 1,8-2,5 cm |
Ipomoea triloba | |||
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sagitate entire |
L 0,6-1 cm diam 1-1,5 cm |
Ipomoea eriocarpa | |||
| blue violet |
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cordate entire to trilobed |
L 5-7 cm diam 7 cm |
Ipomoea indica | ||
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cordate entire |
L 2,5-5 cm diam 4-6 cm |
Ipomoea purpurea | |||
| blue |
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cordate trilobed |
L 5-6 cm diam 4-6 cm |
Ipomoea nil | ||
| white |
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sagitate entire |
L 0,6-1 cm diam 1-1,5 cm |
Ipomoea eriocarpa | ||
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cordate entire |
L 1,5-2,5 cm diam 1,5-2 cm |
Ipomoea obscura | |||
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palmate |
L 2-3 cm diam 3-5 cm |
Merremia aegyptia | |||
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cordate entire to trilobed |
L 7-12 cm diam 8-10 cm |
Ipomoea alba | |||
| yellow |
cordate entire |
L 3-4 cm diam 4-6 cm |
Ipomoea ochracea | |||
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cordate entire |
L 2-3 cm diam 2-3 cm |
Merremia umbellata | |||
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Look Alikes
pinnatisect : a simple leaf with pinnate segments nearly reaching the central mid-rib,
Palmate : composite leaf whose leaflets resemble fingers
palmatiséquée : simple leaf with deeply cut lobes, closely reaching the base of the leaf
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Ipomoea purpurea and Ipomoea indica can be easily confused. Ipomoea purpurea is a vine not exceeding 4 m long, with generally entire leaves (unlobed), but rarely lobed, inflorescences usually containing 1 flower sometimes up to 4, the corolla of which is 4 to 5 cm long with color more often pastel (pink, blue, purple), while Ipomoea indica is a large liana that can easily reach 10 m long, has leaves of variable form often trilobed, dense inflorescences always containing several flowers and often more than 4, with corolla 5 to 7 cm long and of intense blue or violet color.
| Pinnatisect leaf blade (*) | Ipomoea quamoclit | |||||
| palmate lamina (*) | Merremia aegyptia | |||||
| palmatisect leaf blade (*) | No supernumerary lobes at the base of the leaf | Entire leaf margin | Merremia dissecta | |||
| Highly serrated leaf margin | Ipomoea coptica | |||||
| Supernumerary lobes at the base of the leaf | Ipomoea cairica | |||||
| lamina simple tri-lobed | Stem with latex | Ipomoea batatas | ||||
| Stem without latex | stem and leaf hirsute | Ipomoea nil | ||||
| stem and leaf pubescent | Ipomoea indica | |||||
| stema nd leaf usually glabrous | well marked lobes | Ipomoea triloba | ||||
| slightly marked lobes | Ipomoea hederifolia | |||||
| Lamina simple entire | stem with latex | Hollow stem, aquatic plant | Ipomoea aquatica | |||
| Solid stem, terrestrial plant | Ipomoea batatas | |||||
| stem without latex | stem glabrous | Entire margin | Ipomoea alba | |||
| Margin marked by 2 to 5 tines | Ipomoea hederifolia | |||||
| pubescent stem | sagittate leaf blade | margin of the leaf glabrous | Ipomoea eriocarpa | |||
| ovate leaf blade | margin of the leaf ciliated | Jacquemontia tamnifolia | ||||
| Leaf blade cordate at the base | leaf blade pubescent | leaves small. always simple | Ipomoea purpurea | |||
| leaves large often trilobed | Ipomoea indica | |||||
| leaf blade usually glabrous | apiculate tip | Ipomoea obscura | ||||
pinnatisect : a simple leaf with pinnate segments nearly reaching the central mid-rib,
Palmate : composite leaf whose leaflets resemble fingers
palmatiséquée : simple leaf with deeply cut lobes, closely reaching the base of the leaf
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Distinction between Ipomoea species from cotyledon shape
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| V-shaped |
free branches or preety much |
branches highly apart | 40 mm long |
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Ipomoea quamoclit |
| branches slightly apart | 40 mm long |
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Ipomoea aquatica | ||
| 20 mm long |
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Ipomoea obscura | |||
| branches welded at the base | 20 mm long |
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Ipomoea triloba | ||
| bilobed | 12 mm long |
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Ipomoea eriocarpa | ||
| 25 mm long |
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Ipomoea nil | |||
| slightly indented | petiolate | 20 mm long |
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Ipomoea indica | |
| long petiolate | 25 - 30 mm long |
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Ipomoea hederifolia | ||
| shortly petiolate | 25 - 30 mm long |
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Merremia aegyptia | ||
| indented with basal tooth | petiolate | 15 mm long and width |
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Ipomoea purpurea | |
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Ecology
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It grows along the roadsides, villages, riverine.
Comoros: Ipomoea purpurea is a ruderal species and is found along roadsides and vacant lots. It is present in the three islands of the Comoros, mainly at low altitude.
Madagascar: Species subspontaneous ruderal fairly common in the highlands and the eastern side of the island. It grows on the slopes, along the roads and in the rubble.
Mauritius: rare species.
Reunion: This species is uncommon in Reunion. It's found mainly along the roads and in the sugar cane fields of the Northeast and Southwest of the island.
Seychelles: absent.
Comoros: Ipomoea purpurea is a ruderal species and is found along roadsides and vacant lots. It is present in the three islands of the Comoros, mainly at low altitude.
Madagascar: Species subspontaneous ruderal fairly common in the highlands and the eastern side of the island. It grows on the slopes, along the roads and in the rubble.
Mauritius: rare species.
Reunion: This species is uncommon in Reunion. It's found mainly along the roads and in the sugar cane fields of the Northeast and Southwest of the island.
Seychelles: absent.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
Comoros
Mauritius
Origin
Ipomoea purpurea is native to Central and South America.
Worldwide distribution
This species is now widely distributed in many warm temperate (USA, Europe) and tropical (East and South Africa, Indian Ocean, India, Asia) regions.
Ipomoea purpurea is native to Central and South America.
Worldwide distribution
This species is now widely distributed in many warm temperate (USA, Europe) and tropical (East and South Africa, Indian Ocean, India, Asia) regions.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Madagascar: Species rarely encountered in crops.
Mauritius: This species is not found in crops.
Reunion: An infrequent and sparse weed present mainly in sugar cane and occasionally in market gardening.
Seychelles: absent.
South Africa: Distributed to Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape province. It is a category 1, prohibited weed. This weed smoothly infests crops, string all the plant together and this cause disturbance with the harvest of crops.
Local harmfulness
Comoros: Ipomoea purpurea is a fairly abundant species and very harmful because it muffles all plants including crops such as cassava, banana, sugar cane and vanilla guardians.Madagascar: Species rarely encountered in crops.
Mauritius: This species is not found in crops.
Reunion: An infrequent and sparse weed present mainly in sugar cane and occasionally in market gardening.
Seychelles: absent.
South Africa: Distributed to Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape province. It is a category 1, prohibited weed. This weed smoothly infests crops, string all the plant together and this cause disturbance with the harvest of crops.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
Global control
Chemical: It is a difficult weed to control, but it is best controlled by hormone-type herbicides.
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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References
- Le Bourgeois, T., P. Grard, L. C. Foxcroft, D. Thompson, A. Carrara, A. Guézou, R. W. Taylor and T. Marshall (2013). Pl@ntInvasive-Kruger V.1.0 : Alien plants of the Kruger National Park. Cdrom. Montpellier, France, Skukuza, South Africa, Cirad-SANparks-SAEON eds.
- Le Bourgeois, T., A. Carrara, M. Dodet, W. Dogley, A. Gaungoo, P. Grard, Y. Ibrahim, E. Jeuffrault, G. Lebreton, P. Poilecot, J. Prosperi, J. A. Randriamampianina, A. P. Andrianaivo and F. Théveny (2008). Advent-OI : Principales adventices des îles du sud-ouest de l'Océan Indien. Cirad. Montpellier, France, Cirad.
- Invasives South Africa https://invasives.org.za/fact-sheet/common-morning-glory/
Information Listing > References
- Le Bourgeois, T., P. Grard, L. C. Foxcroft, D. Thompson, A. Carrara, A. Guézou, R. W. Taylor and T. Marshall (2013). Pl@ntInvasive-Kruger V.1.0 : Alien plants of the Kruger National Park. Cdrom. Montpellier, France, Skukuza, South Africa, Cirad-SANparks-SAEON eds.
- Le Bourgeois, T., A. Carrara, M. Dodet, W. Dogley, A. Gaungoo, P. Grard, Y. Ibrahim, E. Jeuffrault, G. Lebreton, P. Poilecot, J. Prosperi, J. A. Randriamampianina, A. P. Andrianaivo and F. Théveny (2008). Advent-OI : Principales adventices des îles du sud-ouest de l'Océan Indien. Cirad. Montpellier, France, Cirad.
- Invasives South Africa https://invasives.org.za/fact-sheet/common-morning-glory/
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Ipomoea%2520purpurea
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Solanales |
| Family | Convolvulaceae |
| Genus | Ipomoea |
| Species | Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
