Ipomoea triloba

Simões, A. R., Silva, H. & Silveira, P., 2011, The Convolvulaceae of Timor with special reference to East Timor, Blumea 56 (1), pp. 49-72 : 62

24. Ipomoea triloba L. — Map 12

Ipomoea triloba L. (1753) 161; Ooststr. (in Ooststr. & Hoogland 1953) 468.

Distribution — Native to tropical America, now a circumtropical weed; throughout Malesia (Van Ooststroom & Hoogland 1953).

Habitat & Ecology — In grasslands, thickets, hedges, waste places, waysides, fields, also in savannah-forests and occasionally on sandy sea-shores, from sea level to 750 m (Van Ooststroom & Hoogland 1953).

Vernacular names — Fehuc-fuic (Tetum), naubia-talin (Manbae).

Figures

Map 12 Distribution of Ipomoea trichosperma Blume ($), I. tricolor Cav. (5), I. triloba L. (:) and I. violacea L. (-).