CONVOLVULACEAE - Morning Glory Family
Herbs, shrubs, trees, usually twining
herbs
Leaves alternate, simple, lobed
or entire
Flowers bisexual,
actinomorphic, large and showy, often with involucral bracts, in many
types of infls.
Fruit a capsule
50 genera, 1500 species
Economic importance:
Ipomoea
- Morning Glory, sweet potato, unlike Irish potatoes and yams,
sweet potatoes are roots
Medicinal uses - Root used as a purgative.
Diagnostic characteristics: twining herbs, flowers 5-merous with
corolla fused into a tube, stamens attahced to petals. Convolvulaceae
are similar to Solanaceae except sepals
are not fused
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