Morningglory

Herbs annual, twining, with spreading hispid axial parts. Stems 0.5-3 m. Petiole 2-8 cm; leaf blade circular or transversely elliptic in outline, 2-10 X 3-13 cm, palmately deeply divided; segments (3-)5-9, elliptic or oblong, tapered at both ends, densely pubescent, apex mucronate. Inflorescences capitate, few flowered; peduncle 4-11 cm; bracts hirsute; outer involucral bracts oblong to linear-oblong, 2-2.5 cm; inner bracts smaller. Pedicel obsolete. Sepals lanceolate, slightly unequal, 1-1.4 cm, hirsute on both sides. Corolla white, funnelform, 3-4 cm, midpetaline bands sparsely pubescent. Stamens included; filaments glabrous. Pistil included; ovary 2-loculed, glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, ca. 7 mm, 4-valved. Seeds ellipsoid, ca. 4 mm, gray tomentellous. 2n = 28, 30.

Tropical E. Africa, tropical Asia.

Guangdong, S Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, S Yunnan [Cambodia, Indonesia, Kashmir, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa, Australia, Pacific Islands].

460-1200 m

Thickets, roadsides, seashores; 0-400 m.

Convolvulus pes-tigridis (Linnaeus) Sprengel; Ipomoea capitellata Choisy; I. hepaticifolia Linnaeus.

Ipomoea pes-tigridis is a species of Ipomoea and family Convolvulaceae. It is known as tiger's footprint (tiger's paw). The species is distributed in Asia, Africa, Australia and other islands in the Pacific. It grows in roadsides and sea coasts which sea level is between 0 and 400 m.