Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.

Ipomoea pes-caprae ssp. brasiliensis (L.) van Ooststroom

Ipomoea pes-caprae ssp. brasiliensis (L.) van Ooststroom, Blumea, 3:533, 1940.

Convolvulus brasiliensis L., Sp. Pl., 159, 1753.

Convolvulus maritimus Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Encyl. Méth., 3:550, 1789 [=1792].

Ipomoea maritima (Desrousseaux) R. Brown, Prodr., 486, 1810.—Jardin, Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 5:315, 1857.

Ipomoea pes-caprae sensu Jouan, Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 11:116, 1865.— Drake, Ill. 244, 1892; Flore, 132, 1892.—Delmas in Dordillon, Dict. Marqu. 2:585, 1932 [sub pohue].—F. Brown, Flora, 240, 1935, and most Pacific authors [non (L.) R. Brown (vide supra)].

Prostrate, coarse, glabrous creeper, tending to form dense mats; leaves coriaceous, oblong or oval to broadly ovate, normally bilobed or at least deeply emarginate at apex, rounded to somewhat cordate at base, on stout petioles; peduncles erect, stout, with 1-several pedicellate flowers disposed in cymes; sepals elliptic to orbicular, outer ones narrower, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous, up to about 1 cm long; corolla funnelform to campanulate, rose purple, darker in center, 3–5 cm long; stamens and style included, stigmas 2, globose; capsule globose, 12–15 mm high; seeds densely brown-tomentose, dull yellowish when the tomentum is worn off.

SPECIMEN SEEN.—Marquesas Islands: s.l., Dupetit-Thouars 8 (P); Herb. S.F.I.M. 79 (P).

Eiao I.: Plateau above Vaituha Bay, 1500 ft, Decker 206 (BISH, US, UC, P); windward slopes, Jones 1538 (BISH).

Nukuhiva I.: Hombron in 1841 (P); Uea Valley, strand above shingle beach, 2 m, locally very common, Decker 2028 (US); Taio Hae Bay, Chapin 748 (NY).

Uahuka I.: 2 m, strand behind sandy beach, Vaipae’e, very common, Decker 1494 (US).

Hivaoa I.: s.l., Brown 378 (BISH); Atuona, PES (M & A) 119 (BISH, LeB); near Atuona, 300 m, PES Ex 22 (BISH); central Puamau strand, just behind beach ridge of shingle, very rocky, very common and conspicuous, Decker 776 (BISH, US, Fo); Natue, to 100 ft [30 m], long uninhabited valley of east of Puamau near Mata Fenua, very common on strand, Decker 1228 (US); Atuona, Chapin 752 (NY); Atuona beach, forming large mats locally, Sachet 1212 (US, P, UH, Fo).

LOCAL NAMES.—One of three species called pohue by Delmas and on Herb. S.F.I.M. 79, PES 119; pohue and paniaoe by F. Brown, neaho-paoué (Dupetit-Thouars 8), paniahoe by Jardin and Jouan.