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Taxon: Ipomoea triloba L.

Genus: Ipomoea subgenus: Eriospermum section: Eriospermum series: Batatas
Family: Convolvulaceae tribe: Ipomoeeae.
Nomen number: 20232
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:161. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 05-Apr-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Jul-2000
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 36 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
AZ°, FL*, PR*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • little-bell   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  • 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)
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Economic importance:

  • Bee plants   (fide WorldWeeds 421. 1997)
  • Gene sources: related to sweet-potato   (fide Bull TBC 105:127. 1978)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • pantropic

      Other:
  • probable origin Americas

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Austin, D. F. & Z. Huáman. 1996. A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas. Taxon 45:12.
  • Austin, D. F. 1978. The Ipomoea batatas complex - I. Taxonomy. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 105:127.
  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
  • Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
  • Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. (WorldWeeds)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
  • Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
  • Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
  • Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California. (F SCalif)
  • Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes)
  • Spellman, D. L. et al. A list of the monocotyledoneae/dicotyledonae of Belize. Published in Rhodora v. 77 & 83, 1975 & 1981 (L Belize)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Standley, P. C. 1937–1939. Flora of Costa Rica. (F CRStand)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. (F Baja)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Ipomoea triloba L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images 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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20232 (09 February 2010)

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