Taxon: Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth

Common names:

• blue morning-glory   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• ivy morning-glory   (Source: CalFlora ) – English
  
• Japanese morning-glory   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• white-edge morning-glory   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• qian niu   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• liseron bleu   (Source: Pacif I Ecosyst Risk ) – French
  
• liseron hallier   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• blaue Prunkwinde   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• campainha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• corda-de-viola   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• corriola   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• kejsarvinda   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Christmas Island; Indonesia; Malaysia; New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• also cultivated

References:

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• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Austin, D. F. & Z. Huáman. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:9.
• Austin, D. F. et al. 2001. A putative tropical American plant, Ipomoea nil (Convolvulaceae), in pre-Columbian Japanese art. Econ. Bot. 55:515–527.
• Austin, D. F. 1986. Nomenclature of the Ipomoea nil complex (Convolvulaceae). Taxon 35:356.
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
• Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert.
• CalFlora Database Project. CalFlora: a botanical resource for California on the internet (on-line resource).
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• Kress, W. J. et al., eds. Revised checklist of the plants of Myanmar (Burma) (on-line resource).
• Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:58.
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• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
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• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
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• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
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• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Convolvulus nil L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Ipomoea nil var. limbata (Lindl.) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Pharbitis limbata Lindl.
  
• (≡) Pharbitis nil (L.) Choisy
  

Check other web resources for Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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