| Five-Leaf Morning Glory |
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| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Distimake quinatus Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Convolvulus quinatus, Ipomoea quinata, Merremia quinata
Synonyms: Convolvulus quinatus, Ipomoea quinata, Merremia quinata
Five-Leaf Morning Glory is a twining herb with axial
parts hairy with erect yellowish hairs, or hairless. Stems are slender,
up to 2 m. Leaf-stalks are 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade digitately compound
with 5 leaflets which are linear, lanceshaped, or oblong-elliptic,
1.5-4.2 cm x 2.5-15 mm. Flowers are carried on 3-6 mm long stalks.
Flowers are white, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, about 4 cm. Filaments
inserted 6-7 mm above base of flower. Sepals are elliptic to
ovate-oblong, unequal; outer 2 sepals 8-10 mm; inner ones about 1.5 cm,
hairless, tip blunt, mucronulate. Flowers are in groups of 1 or 2,
borne on flower-cluster-stalk shorter to longer than leaves, hairless
or hairy basally; bracts ovate-deltate, 3-4 mm, tip tapering. Capsules
are ovoid, 1-1.3 cm, tip tapering. Seeds oblong, 4-6 mm, pale yellow
velvet-hairy. Five-Leaf Morning Glory is found on open mountain slopes,
in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Australia.
| Identification credit: Bubai Bera | Photographed in Chilkigarh, Jhargram, West Bengal. |
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