Convolvulaceae
Ipomoea

Ipomoea passifloroides House

First published in Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 18: 230 (1908)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Cuba, Cayman Islands. It is a climbing perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/62075964/62075975

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
Slender perennial twining vine, densely short-pilose
Morphology Leaves
Leaves narrowly ovate, 4–7 cm long, deeply 3-lobed, 7-nerved from the base
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles
Peduncles short, 5 cm long or less, 2–5-flowered; bracts ovate, obtuse, 6–8 mm long; pedicels densely hirsute; sepals subequal, 7–9 mm long, pilose outside toward the base, glabrous within; corolla bright pink, 4–5 cm long. Capsules glabrous, 8–10 mm in diameter; seeds pubescent.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Cuba, known only from the Sierra Maestra region.
Ecology
Found in rocky scrub woodland
[Cayman]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0