Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. [Sweet] 287 (1826)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Convolvulus cairicus L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 922 (1759)
Vernacular Name(s):
Coastal morning glory; Panahi; Pōuwhiwhi; Pōwhiwhi; Railway creeper
Description
Slender, fibrous-rooted, glabrous, perennial, climbing or scrambling herb. Stems ribbed, often becoming tuberculate. Lvs on slender petioles to 5 cm long, spreading. Lamina 2.5–7 cm long, palmately 5–7-lobed almost to base; lobes lanceolate, obtuse to subacute or mucronate, entire or outer again lobed; terminal lobe larger. Infl. 1–2–(4)-flowered; peduncles to 5 cm long, ± erect. Pedicels to c. 3 cm long. Sepals 6–10 mm long, ovate, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 4.5–6 × 5–8 cm, funnelform, mauve with darker throat, very rarely white. Stamens included. Capsule 12 mm diam., globose-ovoid. Seeds 2–4, hairy until mature, often becoming glabrous after dehiscence.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Oct.–May.
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Linnaeus, C. von 1759: Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 2. Edition 10. Stockholm.
Sweet, R. 1825–1827: British Flower Garden. Vol. 2. James Ridgeway & Sons, London.
