Request for ID- 070710RA1

[Rashida Atthar]

Request Id of this Convolvulaceae please, Thank you.

 

Date/Time :	19 June 2010- Early morning
Location- Place, altitude and GPS:	Mumbai.
Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type:	Garden
Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb:	Climber
Height/length:	----
Leaves-type/shape/size:	Five leaves with two of then bifurcated
Inflorescence type /size:	-----
Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts:	Purple with deep purple at the edge, convolvulous petals.
Fruits type-shape/size/seeds:	-----
Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses  and so on:	-------

 

 regards,

 Rashida.

 

[R. Vijayasankar]

Looks like Railroad Creeper, Ipomoea cairica.

With regards

R. Vijayasankar

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[mani nair]

Commonly known as Railway creeper as it is found near the railway boundary walls, grills etc.

Regards,

Mani.

[Senthilkumar]

Dear Vijayashanker Anna

It could be Ipomoea digitata due to the characters of the purplish flowers and digitate leaflets. Leaflets are ovate-lanceolate.

Regards

Senthilkumar U.

Senthilkumar U.
BSI & School of Ecology and Conservation,
University of Agricultural Sciences,
Bangalore-560 065.
Karnataka, India

[R. Vijayasankar]

Dear Senthil,

 

Thanks for your response.

 

You may be right. But the leaves in Ipomoea cairica are divided upto the base (appearing as a compound leaf, as it is in the picture) which is not the case in I. digitata. The former sp is a common escape (weed) along roadsides and planted in gardens. Whereas, the latter sp doesn't occurs as weed. Anyway, let's hear from others too.

 

Rashida ji, can you pl provide some more info like local name, use, presence of tuber, occurrence etc?

[The tubers of I. digitata, known as 'giant potato' is a popular medicinal plant used as galactagouge in the name of Vidari in Ayurveda. I. cairica is not a medicinal plant as far as i know].

With regards

R. Vijayasankar

[Pardeshi S.]

this is
Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet., Hort. Brit. 287, 1827; Almeida, Fl. Mah.
3: 321, 2001. Singh et al, Fl. Mah. St. 2: 485, 2001; Yadav &
Sardesai, Fl. Kolhapur Dist. 308, 2002.
Synonyms: Convolvulus cairicus L. Syst. Ed. 10, 922, 1759. I. palmata
Fosk. Fl. Aegypt.- Arab. 43, 1775; Cl. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:
214, 1883; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay 2: 319, 1958 (Repr.). I.
tuberculata Roem. & Schult. Syst. 4: 208, 1819.
Common names: Railway creeper, Gar-vel.

commonly the corolla color is blue-voilet, however, a white form can
also be observed ocassionally.

Regards
Satish Pardeshi
On Jul 7, 11:58 am, "R. Vijayasankar" <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Senthil,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>

> You may be right. But the leaves in* Ipomoea cairica* are divided upto the

> base (appearing as a compound leaf, as it is in the picture) which is not
> the case in I. digitata. The former sp is a common escape (weed) along
> roadsides and planted in gardens. Whereas, the latter sp doesn't occurs as
> weed. Anyway, let's hear from others too.
>
> Rashida ji, can you pl provide some more info like local name, use, presence
> of tuber, occurrence etc?
> [The tubers of I. digitata, known as 'giant potato' is a popular medicinal
> plant used as galactagouge in the name of Vidari in Ayurveda. I. cairica is
> not a medicinal plant as far as i know].
>
> With regards
>
> R. Vijayasankar
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Senthilkumar <sensonsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Vijayashanker Anna
> > It could be Ipomoea digitata due to the characters of the purplish flowers
> > and digitate leaflets. Leaflets are ovate-lanceolate.
>
> > Regards
> > Senthilkumar U.
>

> > On 7 July 2010 11:23, mani nair <mani.na...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Commonly known as Railway creeper as it is found near the railway boundary
> >> walls, grills etc.
>
> >> Regards,
>
> >> Mani.
>
> >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM, R. Vijayasankar <

> >> vijay.botan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Looks like *Railroad Creeper, Ipomoea cairica.*
> >>> **

> >>> With regards
>
> >>> R. Vijayasankar
>
> >>>   On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Rashida Atthar <

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Ipomoea cairica Indeed !!
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