Taxon: Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker Gawl.

Common names:

• obscure morning-glory   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Gambia; Ghana; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal [s.e.]
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Tuamotu Archipelago
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

• naturalized elsewhere in tropics

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1967–. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Fosberg, F. R. & M.-H. Sachet. 1977. Flora of Micronesia, 3. Convolvulaceae. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 36:19.
• Hosking, J. R. 2002. pers. comm. via e–mail on 13 May. [not native in Australia].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski. 1992. Les genres Merremia et Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37:102.
• Meeuse, A. D. J. 1957. The South African Convolvulaceae. Bothalia 6:746.
• Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
• Schijff, H. P. van der. 1969. A check-list of the vascular plants of the Kruger national park.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). 1993–. Flora Madhya Pradesh.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ipomoea obscura.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ipomoea obscura.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Convolvulus obscurus L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Ipomoea fragilis Choisy
  

Check other web resources for Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker Gawl.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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