Jacquemontia Choisy
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Convolvulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Trailing or climbing vines, mostly herbaceous, the leaves usually entire, the mostly small, violet blue or -white flowers cymose or subeapitate. Sepals nearly equal or the outer ones larger than the inner. Corolla campanulate or rotate-campanulate, the limb 5-angled. Stamens shorter than the corolla; filaments filiform, or their bases dilated; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled; ovules mostly 4; united styles filiform; stigmas 2. Capsule small, 2-celled. [Commemorates Victor Jacquemont, a French botanical traveller, died 1828.] Thirty species or more, mostly of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Convolvulus coeruleus Schum.