Ipomoeeae

A. R. G., Simões, V. B., Shimpale, P., Rattanakrajang, P., Traiperm, S. P., Kagame, G., Huerta-Ramos, S., Goray, V., Gowda, T., Nayi, A. L. C., Moreira, J. C. J., Barbosa, C. P., Paixão, P., Atta-Adjei, B. D., Williams & Eserman, L. A., 2024, Reinstating Palaeotropical genera of Convolvulaceae: Argyreia, Stictocardia, Turbina and Astripomoea (tribe Ipomoeeae, subtribe Argyreiineae), Rheedea 34 (5), pp. 533-552 : 541

(tribe Ipomoeeae )

1a. Shrubs or sub-shrubs, never climbing; indumentum stellate on all parts...... Astripomoea

1b. Lianas; indumentum simple on all parts ...... 2

2a. Fruits indehiscent, either dry or fleshy.......... 3

2b. Fruits dehiscent or tardily dehiscent.............. 4

3a. Fruit a berry, with or without a persisting style; abaxial surface of the leaf with dense silvery indumentum; accrescent sepals enclosing the fruit ...................................................... Argyreia

3b. Fruit dry nutlets or capsules, with a persisting style; abaxial surface of the leaf mostly glabrous, without dense silvery indumentum; papery sepals reflexing from the fruit.................. Turbina

4a. Calyx greatly enlarged, completely enclosing fruit; leaves (and often sepals and corolla lobes) with minute blackish glandular dots abaxially; fruit wall eroding at length between septa, lantern-shaped ..................... Stictocardia

4b. Calyx not enlarged, either reflexed from fruit or not fully enclosing it; leaves (and sepals and corolla lobes) without blackish dots; fruit wall dehiscing along 4 valves................. Ipomoea s.l.

Argyreia Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 1: 95, 134. 1790; Staples & Traiperm, Taxon: 66(2): 445. 2017. Type: Argyreia obtusifolia Lour.

Distribution: 145 (150 taxa) distributed in Madagascar, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Queensland ( Fig. 5 ).

Figures

Fig. 5. Broad geographic distribution of Argyreia, based on GBIF (https://gbif.org) records; only native distribution considered, potentially cultivated/introduced records for ornamental species excluded.