Astripomoea

Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:

Astripomoea A.Meeuse in Bothalia 6: 709 (1957a).

Tribe:

Ipomoeeae

Synonyms:

AstrochlaenaHallierf.: 120 (1893a).

Type Species:

A. lachnosperma (Choisy) A. Meeuse.

Habit:

Erect or trailing, annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs, covered with a conspicuous indumentums of soft stellate hairs on all vegetative parts, peduncles, bracteoles, pedicels and sepals.

Leaves:

Leaves petiolate, usually ovate, oblong to subcordate, entire to coarsely dentate-sinuate.

Inflorescences:

Inflorescence cymose, few- to many-flowered or by reduction occasionally 1-flowered; cymes axillary but often forming terminal leafy panicles at apex of stems; bracteoles often small; pedicels usually short.

Flowers:

Sepals 5, usually ± unequal, often ovate or oblong to lanceolate; outer ones often subcarinate dorsally. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple or violet or white with a purple centre, limb spreading, almost entire; midpetaline areas well defined. Stamens included, unequal in length; filaments filiform or linear; anthers oblong, somewhat lobed or sagittate at base, sometimes covered with swollen hairs; pollen spherical, spinulose. Disc annular. Ovary binocular, 4-ovuled; style simple, included; stigmas thick, bicapitate or oblong.

Pollen:

Pollen spherical, spinulose

Fruits:

Caspule dehiscent, 4-valved, usually glabrous.

Seeds:

Seeds 4, usually covered with a velvety or cobwebby to villous tomentum.

Distribution:

Africa. map

Number of Species:

References:

VERDCOURT, B. 1963a. Convolvulaceae. In C.E. Hubbard & E. Milne-Redhead (eds.), Flora of tropical east Afirca Pg.72.

ROESSLER, H. 1967a. 117. Cuscutaceae. In H. Merxmüller (ed.), Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika. Pg. 2. Cramer, Weinheim.

DYER, R.A. 1975. The genera of southern African flowering plants, Vol. 1.: 505. Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Pretoria.

GONÇALVES, M.L. 1987. 117, 118. Convolvulaceae – Cuscutaceae. In E. Launert (ed.), Flora zambesiaca, Vol. 8,1.: 51.

GONÇALVES, M.L. 1992. 113. Convolvulaceae. Flora de Moçambique. Pg.54. Instituto de Investigaçào Cientifica Tropical, Centro de Botânica, Lisbon.

LEJOLY, J. & LISOWSKI, S. 1993b. Les Convolvulaceae dans la flore d’Afrique Centrale (Zaïre, Rwanda, Burundi). Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica 38,2: 387.

Author/Editor

Author:

Meeuse & Welman

Editor:

G.W. Staples & Esmond Er

Publication:

Meeuse & Welman p.66 (2001)

Contributors:

Convolvulaceae Unlimited

Convolvulaceae

Astripomoea

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