- Family:
- Convolvulaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Ipomoea L.
Ipomoea corymbosa (L.) Roth

[KBu]
Wood, J.R.I., Carine, M.A., Harris, D. et al. 2015. Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in Bolivia. Kew Bulletin 70: 31. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-015-9592-7
- Conservation
- Least Concern (LC).
- Ecology
- Widespread throughout tropical America and introduced into the Old World, this species is of uncertain status in Bolivia. It is locally frequent in disturbed bushy places usually near settlements in the moister lowlands below about 1100 m, principally but not exclusively in the Santa Cruz region. It is particularly common in riverine scrub.
- Morphology General Habit
- Liana climbing to about 7 m over shrubs and small trees; stems woody, usually glabrous
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, 4 – 10 × 3 – 9 cm, ovate, cordate with rounded auricles, narrowed to an obtuse, shortly mucronate apex, glabrous or (rarely) pubescent, abaxially paler; petioles 2 – 5 cm
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence of lax compound cymes terminal on the main stem and on lateral branchlets 5 – 20 cm long; secondary peduncles 1 – 5 cm, bracteoles c. 2 mm, scale-like; pedicels 7 – 17 mm, sepals slightly unequal, oblong, obtuse, nearly completely scarious, glabrous, outer 10 – 11 mm, inner 11 – 14 mm; corolla 2.5 – 3 cm, campanulate, cream with dark centre and yellow midpetaline bands, glabrous, limb c. 1.5 – 2 cm diam. Capsule narrowly ovoid, 11 – 14 × 3 – 4 mm, glabrous, style persistent, seeds 1 – 2, 4 – 5 mm diam., subglobose, tomentose
- Note
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Flowers during the winter dry season, principally from June to September.
A conspicuously woody liana with a campanulate corolla and oblong scarious sepals, the inflorescence often subracemose or corymbose in appearance. The ripe fruit is distinctive as the sepals are persistent, become papery and spread outwards so aiding dispersal by the wind. The seeds have hallucinogenic properties (Stearn 1976). Ipomoea corymbosa can be confused with I. reticulata which has similar coloured flowers and grows in similar habitats but the sepals of I. reticulata are elliptic, less than 8 mm long and it flowers earlier in the year from April to May.
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- campanita blanca
[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Caribbean. Elevation range: 30–250 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Atlántico, Bolívar, Magdalena.
- Habit
- Liana.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: wetlands (inland).
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 30 - 250 m.; Llanura del Caribe.
- Morphology General Habit
- Liana
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
[UPFC]
- Use Environmental
- Environmental uses.
- Use Materials
- Used as material.
- Use Medicines
- Medical uses.
- Use Social
- Social uses.
Doubtfully present in:
Texas
Native to:
Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Bermuda, Canary Is., Florida, Mauritius, Mozambique, North Carolina, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Sri Lanka, Zaïre
- Convolvulus corymbosus L.
- Convolvulus domingensis Desr.
- Convolvulus laevicaulis Roem. & Schult.
- Convolvulus monospermus Tineo
- Convolvulus multiflorus Kunth
- Convolvulus prolifer Roem. & Schult.
- Convolvulus sidifolius Kunth
- Convolvulus zeylanicus Moon ex Wall.
- Ipomoea antillana Millsp.
- Ipomoea burmanni Choisy
- Ipomoea cordifolia Carey ex Voigt
- Ipomoea cymosa Lindl.
- Ipomoea domingensis (Desr.) House
- Ipomoea sidifolia (Kunth) Sweet
- Legendrea corymbosa (L.) Ooststr.
- Legendrea mollissima Webb & Berthel.
- Quamoclit domingensis (Desr.) M.Gómez
- Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hallier f.
- Rivea corymbosa var. mollissima (Webb & Berthel.) Hallier f.
- Rivea corymbosa var. paniculata Hassl.
- Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf.
- Turbina corymbosa f. mollissima (Webb & Berthel.) Stearn
Ipomoea corymbosa (L.) Roth appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Oct 17, 2012 | Hassler, E. [10538], Paraguay | Turbina corymbosa | K000944941 | Yes | |
Jul 1, 1978 | Macedo, A. [785], Brazil | Turbina corymbosa | K000944942 | Yes | |
Mexico | Turbina corymbosa | 37260.000 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [2276], México State | Turbina corymbosa | K000465442 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [11646], Guerrero | Turbina corymbosa | K000465447 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [13212], Michoacán | Turbina corymbosa | K000465449 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [9783], Guerrero | Turbina corymbosa | K000465446 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [12597], Michoacán | Turbina corymbosa | K000465448 | No | ||
Spruce, R. [3931] | Turbina corymbosa | K000395041 | Yes | ||
Hinton, G.B. [12335], Michoacán | Turbina corymbosa | K000465444 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [5212], México State | Turbina corymbosa | K000465443 | No | ||
Spruce, R. [s.n.] | Turbina corymbosa | K000395043 | Yes | ||
Spruce, R. [3931] | Turbina corymbosa | K000395042 | Yes | ||
Hinton, G.B. [8238], México State | Turbina corymbosa | K000465441 | No | ||
Hinton, G.B. [2651], México State | Turbina corymbosa | K000465445 | No |
First published in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 4: 232 (1819)
Accepted by
- Shinners, L. in Correll, D.S. & M.C Johnston (1970). Convolvulaceae Manual of the vascular plants of Texas: 1241-1261. Texas Research Foundation.
- Wood, J.R.I., Carine, M.A., Harris, D., Wilkin, P., Williams, B. & Scotland, R.W. (2015). Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in Bolivia Kew Bulletin 70(31): 1-124.
- Wood, J.R.I., Muñoz-Rodríguez P., Williams, B.R.M., Scotland, R.W. (2020). A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World PhytoKeys 143: 1-823.
Not accepted by
- Austin, D.F. & Huáman, Z. (1996). A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas Taxon 45: 3-38. [Cited as Turbina corymbosa.]
- Austin, D.F. & Staples, G.W. (1991). A revision of the neotropical species of Turbina Raf. (Convolvulaceae) Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 118: 265-280. New York Botanical Garden. [Cited as Turbina corymbosa.]
- Kartesz, J.T. in Kartesz, J.T. (1994). Convolvulaceae A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland: 217-221. Timber Press. [Cited as Turbina corymbosa.]
- Manitz, H. (1983). Zur Nomenklatur einiger Convolvulaceae und Cuscutaceae. I Feddes Repertorium 94: 173-182. [Cited as Turbina corymbosa.]
- McPherson, G. [w/ D.F. Austin] in Braco, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Convolvulaceae Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru: 365-374. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. [Cited as Turbina corymbosa.]
- Meisner, C.F. in Martius, C.F.P.von & auct. suc. (eds.) (1869). Convolvulaceae Flora Brasiliensis 7: 199-370. [Cited as Ipomoea sidaefolia.]
Literature
Kew Bulletin
- Roemer & Schultes 1819: 232.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Austin, D.F. & Staples, G.W. (1991). A revision of the neotropical species of Turbina Raf. (Convolvulaceae) Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 118: 265-280. New York Botanical Garden.
- Austin, D.F. in Dassanayake (ed.) (1980). Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon Convolvulaceae A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 1: 288-363. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta.
- Bianchini, R.S., Ferreira, P.P.A. in Forzza, R.C. et al. (2010). Convolvulaceae Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
- Bosser, J. & H. Heine (2000). Fl. Mascar. Convolvulaceae Flore des Mascareignes 127: 1-63. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
- Britton, N. (1918). Flora of Bermuda: 1-585. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
- Dobignard, A. & C. Chatelain in Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Convolvulaceae Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 331-351. Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique de la ville de Genève.
- Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1): 9-129. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Johnson, R.W. (2012). Convolvulaceae Australian Plant Census Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria.
- Lejoly, J. & S. Lisowski (1993). Les Convolvulaceae dans la flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre, Rwanda, Burundi) Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica 38: 351-400.
- Ooststroom, S.J. van & R.D. Hoogland (1953). Convolvulaceae Flora Malesiana 4: 388-512. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.
- Shinners, L. in Correll, D.S. & M.C Johnston (1970). Convolvulaceae Manual of the vascular plants of Texas: 1241-1261. Texas Research Foundation.
- Wood, J.R.I., Muñoz-Rodríguez P., Williams, B.R.M., Scotland, R.W. (2020). A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World PhytoKeys 143: 1-823.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
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- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
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