• Scientific Name: Ipomoea alba L.
• Ref: Sp. Pl.:161. 1753
• Synonyms:
  • Chonemorpha convolvuloides G.Don
  • Bonanox indica Raf.
  • B. riparia Raf.
  • Calonyction aculeatum (L.) House
  • C. aculeatum f. apopetalum Allard
  • C. album (L.) House
  • C. bona-nox Bojer
  • C. macrantholeucum Colla
  • C. megalocarpum A.Rich.
  • C. noctolucum (Herb.) G.Don
  • C. pulcherrimum D.Parodi
  • C. rheedei Colla
  • C. roxburghii G.Don
  • C. speciosum Choisy
  • Convolvulus aculeatus L.
  • C. aculeatus Hill
  • C. aculeatus var. bona-nox (L.) Kuntze
  • C. bona-nox (L.) Spreng.
  • C. duartinus Mure
  • C. grandiflorus L.f.
  • C. latiflorus Desr.
  • C. macrosolen Spreng.
  • C. maximus L.f.
  • C. mutabilis Blanco
  • C. pulcherrimus Vell.
  • Euryloma grandiflora Raf.
  • E. latiflora (Desr.) Raf.
  • Ipomoea aculeata (L.) Kuntze
  • I. aculeata f. bona-nox (L.) Voss
  • I. aculeata var. bona-nox (L.) Kuntze
  • I. aculeata var. heterophylla Kuntze
  • I. ambigua Endl.
  • I. bona-nox L.
  • I. carinata Endl.
  • I. grandiflora Lam.
  • I. krusensternii Ledeb.
  • I. latiflora (Desr.) Roem. & Schult.
  • I. longiflora Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
  • I. maxima (L.f.) G.Don
  • I. noctiflora Griff.
  • I. noctiluca Herb.
  • I. roxburghii Steud.
  • I. tubulosa Willd.
  • Melascus latifolius Raf.
  • Quamoclit longiflora (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) G.Don
  • Tremasperma bona-nox Raf.
• English Common Name: tropical white morning-glory, moon vine, moonflower
• Chinese Common Name: 月光花 yuèguāng∙huā, 嫦娥奔月 Cháng’é bēnyuè
• Japanese Common Name: ヨルガオ [夜顔] yorugao
• Family: Convolvulaceae
• Genus: Ipomoea
• Distribution: Wet forests, watercourses, disturbed areas, cultivated and also naturalized sporadically. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jaingxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [naturalized in Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; Pacific Islands, native in North and South America]
• Photo: 06/25/2016

Herbs annual or perennial, twining, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. Stems to 10 m, terete, smooth or with soft prickles, sap milky. Petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade ovate to ± circular in outline, 10-20 X 5-16 cm, base cordate, margin entire, angular to 3-lobed, apex acuminate, mucronulate. Inflorescences helicoid cymes, rarely dichasial, 1- to several flowered; peduncle stout, terete, 1-24 cm; bracts early deciduous, small. Pedicel 7-15 cm, clavate distally, enlarged in fruit. Flowers nocturnal, fragrant. Sepals elliptic to ovate, ± leathery, glabrous; outer 3 sepals 5-12 mm, apex with a stout spreading awn 4-9 mm; inner 2 sepals 7-15 mm, mucronate. Corolla white, with greenish bands, salverform; tube 7-12 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; limb 7-12 cm in diam., shallowly 5-undulate. Stamens exserted; filaments inserted in apical 1/2 of corolla tube, glabrous; anthers sagittate basally. Pistil exserted; ovary narrowly conical, glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 2.5-3 cm, apiculate. Seeds white, brown, or black, ca. 10 7-8 mm, glabrous. 2n = 28*, 30*, 38*. (Flora of China)

06/25/2016

06/25/2016