Operculina pteripes

Nomenclature

Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication: 

Operculina pteripes (G. Don) O'Donell, Lilloa 23: 435. 1950. 

Synonyms: 

Calonyction pteripes G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 264. 1838. TYPE. Ecuador.  herb. Ruiz.& Pavon (holotype MA?; isotype F).  

Ipomoea alatipes Hooker, Bot. Mag. 88: plate 5330. 1862. TYPE. Hayes s.n. (syntype); Seemann s.n. (syntype); Fendler 2084 (syntype, GH). 

Operculina alatipes (Hooker) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 499. 1906.

Operculina pteropus Meisner in Martius, Fl. Bras. 7: 214. 1869. TYPE. Ecuador. Guayaquil, Pavon (holotype MA?).

Ipomoea alata Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 1: 108. 1891, nomen illegit., not of R. Brown (1810). TYPE. Mexico. Sonora: Alamos, 16–30 Sep 1890, Palmer 706 (holotype US; isotype GH).

Operculina rubicunda House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 498. 1906. TYPE. A new name based on same type as I. alata Rose.

Ipomoea rhodocalyx A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci. 22: 439. 1887. TYPE. Mexico. Jalisco: at base of hills, Tequila, Palmer 421 (holotype GH; isotype US). 

Operculina rhodocalyx (Gray) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 498. 1906.

Operculina lancifolia House, Muhlenbergia 5: 68. 1909. TYPE. Mexico. Chiapas: Valley of Jiquipilas, 16–18 Aug 1895, E.W. Nelson 2923 (holotype, US).

Misapplied name: Ipomoea pterodes of authors not Choisy (1845): e.g., Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 171. 1854. 

Description

Habit: 
Herbs; the stems herbaceous for most of their length, becoming somewhat woody near the base in some plants, cylindrical, striate to angular, glabrous.
Leaves: 
Petioles 1–8 cm long, glabrous or pubescent toward the apex. Leaf blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–13 cm long, 2–8 cm wide, basally cordate to subtruncate, the basal lobes usually rounded and the sinus shallow, apically acute to acuminate, mucronate, glabrous or less commonly pubescent near the base of the blade below.
Flowers: 
Flowers 2–12 in cymose clusters, less often solitary; peduncles 2–15 cm long, with 3 wings in the central part, wings 0.6–3.5 mm wide, becoming attenuate toward both ends, rarely without wings; pedicels 1.5–3.5 cm long, enlarged toward the apex; the bracts caducous, the bracteoles 9–10 mm long, 3–3.5 mm wide, lanceolate, acute, caducous; sepals subequal, the outer 2.2–2.6 cm long, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 1.5–1.9 cm wide, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, basally truncate, the inner 2.3–2.5 cm long, ovate, 1.5–1.8 cm wide, subobtuse to obtuse, basally rounded, glabrous; corolla salverform, pink, red-orange to red-salmon, 4–7 cm long, the tube 5–10 mm in diameter, finely tomentose on the tube and interplicae, stamens subequal, exserted, 4–5 cm long, the anthers spirally dehiscent, 7–8 mm long; ovary ovoid, glabrous, the style 3–4 cm long, the stigma 2–globose.
Fruits: 
Fruits operculate, ellipsoid, surrounded by the somewhat enlarged sepals, brown, the mesocarp and endocarp translucent, 1.5–2 cm in diameter
Seeds: 
Seeds 1–4, black, 8–9 mm long, oblong-ovoid, glabrous.
Author: 
Staples, G.W. & D.F. Austin.
References: 

Austin, D. F. & G. W. Staples. Convolvulaceae in Flora Neotropica [unpublished data]. 

Biogeography, Ecology and Natural History

Distribution Map: 
Distribution: 

Mexico, Middle America and northern South America.

Author: 
Staples, G.W. & D.F. Austin.
References: 

Austin, D. F. & G. W. Staples. Convolvulaceae in Flora Neotropica [unpublished data]. 

Authorship for webpage

Editor: 
George Staples, Esmond Er
Contributors: 
Classification: 
Mon, 2011-10-03 08:20 -- Esmond
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