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Ipomoea acuminata - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Fading flower - Click to enlarge!

Fading flower; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Sepals - Click to enlarge!

Sepals; Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Top and lower side of leaf (note that the lower surface is glabrous at this specimen) - Click to enlarge!

Top and lower side of leaf (note that the lower surface is glabrous at this specimen); Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Dense trichomes on the lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Dense trichomes on the lower side of leaf; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Faial, Azores, Portugal; 8/2016 © Jörn Germer

Ipomoea acuminata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 8/2006 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 386
Date of entry: 02.08.2006
Last update: 13.01.2020

Common name

English: Blue Dawn Flower

German: Prunkwinde

Portuguese: Bons Dias

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2586)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2483)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2101)

      Order: Solanales (93)

        Family: Convolvulaceae (40)(family description)

          Genus: Ipomoea (17)

            Epithet: acuminata (Vahl) Roemer & J.A. Schultes (2)

Synonym: Ipomoea indica (Burm. f.) Merr.

acuminata => long pointed

indica => from or referring in some way to India

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue, purple, violet, pink

External links

Check for Ipomoea acuminata at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI
  • [750] Bons Dias - INVADER
  • [1187] Ipomoea - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database

Literature

  • [31] Canzobre, H.L., Samartín, L.A. (1998): Guía da flora do litoral galego. Edicións Xerais de Galicia, Vigo, Spain.

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