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Keys
  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
  • Families
Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Convolvulaceae

Ipomoea

  • Ipomoea cairica
  • Ipomoea brasiliensis
  • Ipomoea plebeia
  • Ipomoea indica
  • Ipomoea purpurea

Ipomoea L.

50 species in Aust. (20 endemic, 12 naturalized); all states and territories

Twining, herbaceous perennials. Corolla campanulate or with a cylindrical tube; the limb usually entire, angular. Ovary 2–3-locular, with 2 ovules per loculus. Style filiform; capitate or 2-fid and lobes globular. Fruit a capsule, nearly globular.