Ipomoea carnea Jacq. subsp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Choisy) D.F.Austin

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7. Ipomoea carnea Jacq. subsp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Choisy) D.F.Austin — Map 8

Ipomoea carnea Jacq. subsp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Choisy) D.F. Austin (1977)

237. Ipomoea fistulosa Mart. ex Choisy (1845) 349. Ipomoea crassicaulis (Benth.) B.L.Rob. (1916) 530; Ooststr. (in Ooststr. &

Hoogland 1953) 485.

Distribution — North America, South America, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Pacific Islands, Japan (Ryukyu Islands) ( Fang & Staples 1995). Also in East Timor.

Habitat & Ecology — In hydric sites, particularly ditches, lake margins, marshes, river edges and ‘mattorales’ in South America; also in Hawaii and the tropics of the Old World ( Austin 1977).

Figures

Map 8 Distribution of Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ($), I. cairica (L.) Sweet (5), I. carnea Jacq. subsp. fistulosa (Mart. ex Choisy) D.F.Austin (:), I. decais­ nei Ooststr. (-) and I. hederifolia L. (0).