102. Ipomoea neriifolia Gardner, Icon. Pl. t. 471. 1842. (Gardner 1842a: t. 471)

Type.

BRAZIL. Goiás, Serra de Natividade, Feb. 1840, G. Gardner 3906 (holotype K000612792, isotype BM).

Description.

Erect undershrub to 40 cm from a xylopodium, stems distinctly woody, villous when young but eventually glabrescent. Leaves sessile, imbricate, 5.5-12 × 0.3-0.5 cm, linear or narrowly oblong, acute, margins inrolled, thinly pilose, especially below and on veins, thinly punctate on both surfaces. Inflorescence terminal formed of small cymes and individual flowers from the upper leaf axils; peduncles very short, 1-5 mm, villous; bracteoles caducous; pedicels 3-10 mm; sepals subequal, shotly mucronate, but mucro somewhat caducous, outer 7-8 × 4-5 mm, oblong-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, pubescent, inner 8-9 × 5 mm, elliptic, rounded, mucronate, margins scarious, only midrib puberulent; corolla 4-7 cm long, pink, funnel-shaped, glabrous, limb 3-5 cm diam. Capsules and seeds unknown.

Illustration.

Figures 8M, 68.

Distribution.

A rare Brazilian endemic species of cerrado.

BRAZIL. Bahia: Espigão Mestre, ca. 100 km WSW of Barreiras, 760 m, W.R. Anderson et al. 36640 (FTG). Goiás: Type of Ipomoea neriifolia . Tocantins: Parque Estadual do Jalapão J.M. Rezende et al. 1011 (CEN).

Note.

This is close to Ipomoea queirozii differing in the shorter, broader pubescent sepals.