Taxon: Ipomoea triloba L.

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

Common names:

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

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide WorldWeeds 421. 1997)
  
• Gene sources: potential for drought resistance in sweet-potato   (fide Pl Cell Tissue Cult 99:88. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of sweet-potato   (based on formation of one somatic hybrid ("KT1") fide Pl Cell Tissue Cult 99:88. 2009)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Philippines
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil

• probable origin West Indies

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource). [native].
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• 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.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource). [naturalized].
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kobayashi, R. S. et al. 1994. Interspecific hybrids from cross incompatible relatives of sweetpotato. Euphytica 80:159–164.
• Lebot, V. 2010. Chapter 3. Sweet Potato. In: Bradshaw, J. E., ed., Handbook of Plant Breeding. Root and Tuber Crops. 7. 104, 120.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
• Nimmakayala, P. et al. 2011. Ipomoea. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, industrial crops. 7:123–132.
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Spellman, D. L. et al. A list of the monocotyledoneae/dicotyledonae of Belize. Rhodora v. 77 & 83, 1975 & 1981
• Srisuwan, S. et al. 2006. The origin and evolution of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and its wild relatives through the cytogenetic approaches. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 171:424–433.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Standley, P. C. 1937–1939. Flora of Costa Rica.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yang, Y. et al. 2009. Development and evaluation of a storage root-bearing sweetpotato somatic hybrid between Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. and I. triloba L. Pl. Cell Tissue Organ Cult. 99:83–89.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ipomoea triloba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ipomoea triloba.

Check other web resources for Ipomoea triloba L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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