Ipomoea ochracea - Fence Morning Glory

Fence Morning Glory is a perennial climber with stems with long hairs. Leaves are broadly ovate, 3-6.5 x 2.5-5 cm, heart-shaped with rounded lobes at base, entire at margins, tapering at tip, thinly hairy with long hairs; leaf-stalks 1-5 cm long, densely hairy. Flowers are borne in 1-3-flowered cymes, carried on flower-cluster-stalks 0.7-1 cm long, slender, hairy. Flowers are funnel-shaped, 3-3.6 cm long, sulphur-yellow. Tube is about 2 cm long, hairless; limb 3-3.2 cm across. Stamens are 5, almost equal, not protruding. Flower-stalks are 0.7-1.2 cm long, hairy, elongated in fruits. Sepals are nearly equal, oblong-pointed, 0.9-1.2 x 0.2-0.3 cm, white-fringed with hairs at margins, faintly-veined, hairless inside, hairy outside. Ovary is ovoid, to 4 mm long, hairless; style slender, 1.3-1.5 cm long, hairless, not protruding; stigma 2-lobed. Bracts are linear-lanceshaped, 0.3-0.5 x about 0.1 mm, near joint of flower-stalk with flower-cluster-stalk, hairy. Capsules are ovoid, 0.8-1.2 x 0.7-0.9 cm, pointed with persistent style, hairless, brown, 4-valved, 2-celled. Fence Morning Glory is native to Africa, naturalized in India. Flowering: August-September.