Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth

CNV
7247 IPOMOEA PURPUREA (L.) Roth
Coll: Richard Spellenberg
12 July 1983
YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC» Ibb Governate, about 1.5 mi.
W of Ibb on the Ibb Secondary Agricultural
Institute, in area once of Acacia, Cordia, Ficus,
arborescent Euphorbia, now mostly of sorghum
terraces and grazed field edges; mountainous,
elev. ca. 2000 m.
Common on Institute, occasional elsewhere in
area in sorghum; tube red-violet, limb deep blue-
violet.
Distributed from NMC to: NY, Ibb
US-AID Ibb Secondary Agricultural Institute Proj.
05087555