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Tiny Morning Glory
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Tiny Morning Glory
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Common name: Tiny Morning Glory, Woolly Fruited Morning Glory • Assamese: খুদ কলমৌ khud kalmou • Bengali: ঘোড়াকলমি ghorakalami • Gujarati: ઓડી કુદરડી odi kudaradi • Hindi: बूटा buta, भांवर bhanwar • Kachchhi: અડબાઉ નેરી જી વલ adabau neri ji val • Kannada: ಮುಳ್ಳುಬಳ್ಳಿ Mullu balli, ಮಳ್ಳುಬಳ್ಳಿ Maḷlu balli • Malayalam: Pulichevidu • Marathi: माळ घंटी maal ghanti, रानभोवरी raanbhovari • Odia: ପାଣିନଇ paninoi • Punjabi: ਭੰਵਰ bhanwar • Sanskrit: नखरी nakhari • Telugu: పురిటి తీగ purititige Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Ipomoea eriocarpa    Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Ipomoea hispida, Convolvulus hispidus
Tiny Morning Glory is an annual, twining or prostrate herb, which is overall hairy. Stems grow to 1-2 m long. Leaf stalks are 1.5-6.5 cm long, with a leaf blade 3-9 X 1.5-3.5 cm, which os ovate-lanceshaped, ovate- oblong, with a heart-shaped base, and a pointed tip. Leaves are covered with prostrate hairs. Tiny flowers are borne in 1-3 flowered cymes in leaf axils. Bracts are linear-lanceolate, 3-8 mm long. Flower stalk is very short or absent. Sepals are ovate, 7-9 mm long, densely hairy. Inner sepals are slightly narrower. Flowers are pink or purplish, rarely white, bell-shaped, 7-9 mm long, hairy on the outside. Stamens remain do not protrude out. Ovary is hairy, 2-chambered. Fruit is round, 5-6 mm in diameter, covered with spreading hairs. Flowering: October-November.
Identification credit: N. S. Dungriyal Photographed at Vaghbil, Thane, Maharashtra.
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