Ipomoea alba

Ipomoea alba

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Solanales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Solanales

Familia: Convolvulaceae
Tribus: Ipomoeeae
Genus: Ipomoea
Species: Ipomoea alba

Name

Ipomoea alba L., Sp. Pl. 161. 1753.

Synonyms

Homotypic

• Calonyction album (L.) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 591. 1904.

Heterotypic

• Bonanox indica Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 77. 1838 ("1836"), nom. illeg.
• Bonanox riparia Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 77. 1838.
• Calonyction aculeatum (L.) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 590. 1904.
• Calonyction aculeatum f. apopetalum Allard, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 35: 33. 1945.
• Calonyction bonanox (Spreng.) Bojer, Hortus Maurit. 227. 1837, nom. illeg.
• Calonyction bonanox subvar. calvum Hallier f., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 1037. 1897.
• Calonyction bonanox subvar. glabrum Hallier f., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 1037. 1897.
• Calonyction bonanox subvar. hirsutum Hallier f., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 1038. 1897.
• Calonyction bonanox var. lobatum Hallier f., Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 1037. 1897.
• Calonyction megalocarpum A. Richard, in Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 129, t. 63. 1850.
• Calonyction rheedii Colla, Mem. Nuova Sp. Calon. 15. 1840, nom. illeg.
• Calonyction roxburghii G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 263. 1837, nom. illeg.
• Calonyction speciosum Choisy, Mém. Soc. Phys. Gèneve 6: 441. 1834, nom. illeg.
• Calonyction speciosum var. vulgare Choisy, in de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 345. 1845, nom. inadmiss.
• Convolvulus aculeatus L., Sp. Pl. 155. 1753.
• Convolvulus aculeatus var. bonanox (Spreng.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 212. 1898.
• Convolvulus bonanox Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 600. 1824 ("1825").
• Convolvulus grandiflorus Wall., Numer. List (Wallich) n. 1370. nom. illeg. non Jacq. (1776).
• Convolvulus latiflorus Desr., in Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 561. 1792.
• Convolvulus macrosolen Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 603. 1824 ("1825").
• Convolvulus maximus L. f., Suppl. Pl. 137. 1782 ("1781").
• Convolvulus muricatus Blanco, Fl. Filip. 92. 1837, non L. 1767.
• Convolvulus pulcherrimus Vellozo, Fl. Flumin. 1: 72. 1829 ("1825").
• Convolvulus schottianus Denhart, Cat. Pl. Hort. Camald. 26. 1829.
• Euryloma latiflora (Desr.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4. 75. 1836.
• Ipomoea aculeata (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 442. 1891, non Blume 1825.
• Ipomoea aculeata f. bonanox (Spreng.) Voss, Vilm. Blumengaertn., ed. 3. 1: 708. 1894.
• Ipomoea aculeata var. bonanox (Spreng.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 442. 1891.
• Ipomoea aculeata var. heterophylla Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 442. 1891.
• Ipomoea ambigua Endlicher, Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 53. 1833.
• Ipomoea bonanox L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 228. 1762, nom. illeg.
• Ipomoea grandiflora Roxb., Hort. Beng. 14. 1814, nom. illeg. non Lamarck 1797.
• Ipomoea krusensternii Ledebour, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Hist. Acad. 4: 401, t. 8. 1811.
• Ipomoea latiflora (Desr.) Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 4: 240. 1819.
• Ipomoea longiflora Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willd., Enum. Pl. 207. 1809.
• Ipomoea maxima (L. f.) G. Don ex Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 2. 372. 1830.
• Ipomoea noctiluca Herbert, Bot. Reg. 11: t. 889, sub t. 917. 1825.
• Ipomoea roxburghii Steudel, Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 1: 819. 1840, nom. illeg.
• Ipomoea tubulosa Willd. ex Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 4: 789. 1819.
• Pharbitis calycosa A. Rich., Hist. Fis. Cuba (R. de la Sagra) 11: 128. 1850.
• Quamoclit longiflora (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willd.) G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 259. 1837.

Homonyms

• Ipomoea alba Garcke = Ipomoea tiliacea (Willd.) Choisy

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Cordoba, Corrientes, Distrito Federal, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Santa Fe, Tucuman), S-Brazil (Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Central, Cordillera, Paraguari), Uruguay (Montevideo), Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola), Lesser Antilles (Dominica, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent), Trinidad, Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolvar, Cesar, Choc, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Putumayo, Quindo, Santander, Valle), Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Surinam, Ecuador, Isla del Coco, N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Para, Amazonas, Tocantins, Acre, Rondonia), NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe), WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goias, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul), SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Venezuela (Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Bolivar, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia) Continental: Northern America Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 161. Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Ipomoea alba in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 November 09. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Ipomoea alba. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 November 09. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Ipomoea alba. Published online. Accessed: November 09 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Ipomoea alba. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 November 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Ipomoea alba in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.
• Austin, Daniel F. (1997) Nomenclator Ipomoeeae

Vernacular names

English: Moonflower or moon vine
español: Batatillo
eesti: Kuu-lehtertapp
suomi: Kuuelämänlanka
Nederlands: Maanbloem
svenska: Månvinda
Tiếng Việt: Bìm trắng hay tịch nhan

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