Ipomoea coptica (L.) Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
var. coptica

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Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve

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Synonyms:	Ipomoea dissecta Willd.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Slender, prostrate or twining annual herb. Stems several, up to 1.6 m long, 4-angled. Leaves digitately 5-lobed, each lobed deeply dentate or pinnatifid. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered, axillary. Corolla funnel-shaped, c. 12 mm long, white or pink, sometimes with a darker throat. Capsule depressed-spherical, glabrous.
Type location:	Orient
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Derivation of specific name:	coptica: from Coptos, near Thebes, Egypt.
Habitat:	In mopane and dry deciduous woodland, grassland and in cultivated fields.
Altitude range:	Up to 1400 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Throughout Tropical Africa, South Africa, Tropical Asia and northern Australia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	B,N,C,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	N,Lk,S,W
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Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. As Ipomoea coptica Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 108 - 109. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 367. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 36. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 49. as Ipomoea coptica

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