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Internal ID UUID64405be516058426824143
Scientific name Ipomoea biflora
Authority Pers.
First published in Syn. Pl. 1: 183 (1805)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Exallosis biflora Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 83 (1838)
Ipomoea auxocalyx Pilg. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 819 (1933)
Ipomoea cariosepala Klotzsch ex C.B.Clarke Fl. Brit. India 4: 201 (1883)
Ipomoea forskaolii Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 816 (1840)
Ipomoea perrottetii Choisy Prodr. 9: 373 (1845)
Ipomoea tropica Santapau & V.Patel J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 54: 799 (1957)
Ipomoea plebeia R.Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. : 484 (1810)
Ipomoea geminiflora Welw. Apont. : 590 (1859)
Ipomoea sinensis Choisy Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 6: 459 (1833 publ. 1834)
Ipomoea blepharosepala Hochst. ex A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 72 (1850)
Convolvulus sinensis Desr. Encycl. 3: 557 (1792)
Aniseia calycina Choisy Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 6: 482 (1833 publ. 1834)
Ipomoea hardwickii Hemsl. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 160 (1890)
Convolvulus biflorus L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2 : 1668 (1763)
Aniseia biflora Choisy Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 6: 483 (1833 publ. 1834)
Convolvulus hardwickii Spreng. Syst. Veg. 4(2): 60 (1827)
Convolvulus plebeius (R.Br.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 604 (1824)
Convolvulus ser Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 598 (1824)
Ipomoea timorensis Blume Bijdr. : 711 (1826)
Ipomoea plebeia subsp. indica Verdc. Kew Bull. 13: 200 (1958)
Convolvulus forskolii Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 596 (1824)
Ipomoea calycina (Choisy) Benth. ex C.B.Clarke Fl. Brit. India 4: 201 (1883)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic أثمان ثنائي الأزهار
Chinese 心萼薯
Chinese 华陀花
Chinese 毛牵牛
Chinese 黑面藤
Chinese 白花牽牛
Chinese 白花牵牛

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Socotra
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • Northern Africa
      • Egypt
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Oman
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Yemen
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
    • Eastern Asia
      • Nansei-shoto
      • Taiwan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Laos
      • Myanmar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Jawa
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Philippines
      • Sulawesi
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • Northern Territory
      • Queensland
      • South Australia
      • Western Australia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001299214
Tropicos 8503071
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:268495-1
The Plant List tro-8503071
Open Tree Of Life 6090800
NCBI Taxonomy 2613358
IPNI 268495-1
iNaturalist 736456
GBIF 3677811
USDA GRIN 465061

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
A comprehensive review of antimalarial medicinal plants used by Tanzanians Kacholi DS Pharm Biol 25-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10812860
doi:10.1080/13880209.2024.2305453
PMID:38270178
Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
De novo assembly of the complete mitochondrial genome of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam) revealed the existence of homologous conformations generated by the repeat-mediated recombination Yang Z, Ni Y, Lin Z, Yang L, Chen G, Nijiati N, Hu Y, Chen X BMC Plant Biol 10-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9185937
doi:10.1186/s12870-022-03665-y
PMID:35681138
Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community across a Rainfall Gradient: The UHURU Experiment Goheen JR, Palmer TM, Charles GK, Helgen KM, Kinyua SN, Maclean JE, Turner BL, Young HS, Pringle RM PLoS One 06-Feb-2013
PMCID:PMC3566220
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055192
PMID:23405122

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