Beach Morning Glory, Goatsfoot

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:15:00 GMT

pomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis is a trailing glabrous (smooth) vine with purple stems that often root at the nodes. The fleshy oblong to suborbicular leaves are 3 to 10 cm long and notched at the tip. They are simple and alternately arranged. Flowers are axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes up to 15 cm long. The calyx has 5 unequal, ovate to elliptic sepals 8 to 13 mm long. The corolla is funnel-shaped, pink to rose-purple, 3 to 5 cm long, and shallowly 10-lobed. There are 5 stamens and the ovary is superior. The fruit is an ovoid to subglobose capsule, 12 to 17 mm long, containing 4 dark, ovoid, densely hairy seeds 6 to 10 mm long. (Whistler 1992) Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis is a prostrate, glabrous, somewhat succulent seashore plant. The stems contain a milky latex and may reach 20 meters in length. The oblong to rounded leaves have a long petiole (leaf stalk) and are slightly notched to shallowly bilobed. They are mucronate (i.e., ending in a sharp tip) at the apex and rounded to truncate or subcordate at the base, slightly leathery, and on the undersurface have a visible gland on each side at the base of the midrib. The inflorescence contains 1 to several flowers. Pedicels (flower stalks) are 2 to 5 cm long and slender. The sepals are obtuse or rounded at the apex and mucronate; the inner sepals are about 1 cm long, the 2 outer sepals are shorter. The fruit is an ovoid-globose capsule, 1.5 cm long that dehisces (naturally opens) into 4 valves.The capsule contains 4 densely dark brown pubescent seeds. (Liogier 1995)
Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Ipomoea Species: Ipomoea pes-caprae Main Flower Colour: Pink

Convolvulaceae Ipomoea Ipomoea pes-caprae Wildflowers

Beach Morning Glory, Goatsfoot