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Taxon: Ipomoea quamoclit L.

Genus: Ipomoea subgenus: Quamoclit section: Mina
Family: Convolvulaceae tribe: Ipomoeeae.
Nomen number: 310475
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:159. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 22-Apr-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Jul-2000
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 10 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • cypressvine   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • cypressvine morning-glory   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  • star-glory   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • sweet-Willy   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  • cheveux de Venus   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  • liane rouge   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  • regadero   (Source: F LAnt ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Gard Dict; Hortus 3)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • pantropic

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 45:10.
  • Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. (HF Dehra Dun)
  • Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
  • Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert. (F IndDes)
  • Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
  • Cabrera, A. L. & E. M. Zardini. 1978. Manual de la flora de los alrededores de Buenos Aires. (Man BuenAir)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China) [= Quamoclit pennata].
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • Donell, C. A. O . 1959. Convolvuláceas argentinas. Lilloa 29:227.
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13) [= Quamoclit vulgaris].
  • Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Hara, H. Flora of eastern Himalaya. v. 1:1966, v. 2:1971, v. 3:1975 (F EHimal)
  • Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:60.
  • Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname. (F Suriname)
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ipomoea quamoclit L.:

  • 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.

Images:

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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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