Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Ipomoea L.

IPOMOEA L., 1753

Fls 5-merous, large, ebracteate, axillary, solitary or in cymes. Outer calyx-lobes or sepals us. > inner, erect. Corolla us. broad-funnelform, limb sts angled or lobed. Staminal filaments filiform, sts dilated at base. Ovary us. 2-loculed, 4-ovuled. Style filiform, stigma capitate or with 2 globose lobes. Capsule us. subglobose, 4-valved. Seeds glab. or pubescent. Twining prostrate or scrambling herbs, often lianoid, with alt. variously cut lvs. A widespread, mostly maritime, genus of some 450 spp.

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Lamina digitately 5-7-lobed
Lamina emarginate or 2-lobed
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