Wild plants of Chandigarh – Specimen 4 (Railroad creeper)

Jan 17, 2019 • 10:23 AM UTC

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Commonly known as Railroad creeper or Ivy-leaved Morning Glory
Botanical name – Ipomoea cairica
Family – Convolvulaceae (Morning Glory Family)
Collection site – Sec-64, S.A.S Nagar (Mohali)
Habitat – fast-growing perennial herbaceous vine, that
becomes weed in the wild. It rapidly colonizes the nearby trees, poles and nearby
vegetation by creeeping
Habit – herbaceous perennial vine – a creeper

Ipomoea vine

4-valved capsule split open Stem – thin, twining and trailing
Leaves – palmately cut to the base into 5 lobes, ovate to orbicular in
outline
Inflorescence – flowers in groups of 1 to several per node
Flower – mauve,
infundibuliform shaped, with deciduous bracts and bracteoles
Calyx – green, ovate, campanulate
Corolla – purple or white with a pinkish or purplish base
Stamens – 5, included, length unequal, anthers prominently pointed at tips
Pistil – simple style, bilobed stigma with papilla-like structures
Fruit – 4-valved capsule with hairy seeds
Foldscope description – When the different parts were seen under a foldscope, anther lobes with mass of pollen with well developed exine and pointed ornamentation; stigma showed pappilose structures