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Obscure Morning Glory
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Obscure Morning Glory
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Common name: Obscure Morning Glory • Bengali: কুড়াকলমি Kurakalami • Gujarati: ગુંબડવેલ Gumbadavel, વાડ કુદરડી Vaad kudaradi, વજવેલ vajavel • Hindi: लक्ष्मणा Lakshmana, पान बेल Pan bel, वचगंधा Vachagandha • Kachchhi: છટારીવલ Chatarival, ગુંમડીઆલ Gummadial, ગુંમડીયાર Gummadiyar • Kannada: ಮೂಗುತಿ ಬಳ್ಳಿ Muguthi balli, ಉರುಟೆಲೆ ಬಳ್ಳಿ Urutele balli, ವಜಿಗಂಧ Vajigandha, ಉಸಿರು ಸೊಪ್ಪು Usiru soppu • Konkani: पिलीबोंवरी Pilibonvari • Malayalam: തിരുതാളി Thiruthaali • Marathi: पिवळी भोंवरी Pivali bhonvari, पुंगळी Pungali • Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणा Laksmana, वचगन्धा Vachagandha • Telugu: గొల్ల జిడ్డు ఆకు Golla jiddu aaku, నల్ల కొక్కిత Nalla kokkita • Tulu: ತಿರೂತಾಳಿ Tirutali Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Ipomoea obscura      Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Convolvulus obscurus, Ipomoea fragilis
Obscure Morning Glory is a twining herb with axial parts hairless, spreading velvet-hairy, or almost woolly. Stems are thinly angular, 1-2 m. Leaf-stalk 1.5-3.5 cm; leaf blade heart-shaped-circular or ovate, occasionally kidney-shaped, 2-8 X 1.6-8 cm, hairless or sparsely hairy, base heart-shaped, margin entire or minutely wavy, tip narrowed, pointed. Flowers are borne in 1-3-flowered clusters, carried on flower-cluster-stalk almost thread-like, 1.4-4 cm; bracts needle-like, about 1.5 mm. Flower-stalks are 0.8-2 cm, nearly hairless. Sepals are reflexed in fruit, elliptic-ovate, subequal, 4-5 mm, hairless or velvet-hairy, mucronulate, outer ones whitish margined. Flowes are white or pale yellow, with darker midpetaline bands and a purple center, funnel-shaped, 2-2.5 cm. Capsules are conical-ovoid or spherical, 6-8 mm in diameter, apiculate. Obscure Morning Glory is native to Tropical East Africa, Mascarene Islands, tropical Asia, throughout Malaysia to northern Australia and Fiji. Flowering: August-March.
Identification credit: Tabish Photographed in Delhi.
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