Nomenclature
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
Lepistemonurceolatum(R.Br.) F. v. Muell., Syst. Census Austr. Pl. (1882) 94.
Synonyms:
Ipomoea urceolataR.Br.,Prod. 1(1810) 485.
Lepistemon fitzalaniF.v. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Austr. 10 (1877) 111.
L. lucae F.v. Muell., Vict. Nat. 11 (1885) 74.
L. asterostigmaK. Schum., Bot. Jahrb. 9 (1888) 216.
Description
Habit:
Stems twining, 2- 5 m high, young parts densely hairy with retrorse hairs, later on glabrescent and woody.
Leaves:
Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, rarely narrower, 5-16 by 3-14 cm, cordate or more or less truncate at the base; basal lobes entire and broadly rounded, or with a large tooth or nearly hastate; acuminate and mucronulate at the apex; lower surface sparsely to densely hairy with short
appressed hairs, or sometimes tomentose, upper surface mostly less hairy, glabrescent; petiole 3-11 cm, hairy like the stem
Inflorescences:
Flowers in few- or mostly in many-flowered, more or less dense, axillary, cymose clusters, much shorter than the petiole. Peduncle short or almost absent. Pedicels 3-7 mm, in fruit up to 14 mm, more or less pilose.
Flowers:
Sepals subequal, slightly concave, broadly ovate to
orbicular, obtuse or shallowly emarginate, 2-2½ mm long, hairy or glabrous. Corolla urceolate, 10--12 mm long, creamy white, glabrous outside or with some hairs in the upper part; tube inflated, contracted above limb shortly 5-lobed. Scales at base of filament; smaller than in the preceding species, concave, shortly pilose outside. Disk shallowly 5-lobed. Ovary glabrous.
Fruits:
Capsule globose, 8-10mm diam.
Seeds:
Seeds 4 mm long, puberulous, greyish-black.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History
Distribution:
Tropical Australia, Solomon lsl..Bismarck Arch., Celebes, Moluccas (Talaud Islands, Buru, Ceram), New Guinea. .
Ecology:
In thickets and secondary
forests, in more or less moist localities, 5-1250 m.
References:
Ooststroom,S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland. 1953. Convolvulaceae In Flora Malesiana 4:388–512.
Other information
Common names and uses:
Libuh-libuh, S. Celebes, kepi, onugo, arra, NE. New Guinea,a lakfakisu, New Ireland.
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Editor:
Esmond Er
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