Aguinaldo Blanco (Jacquemontia nodiflora)
Description
Convolvulus nodiflorus is a slightly woody, winding liana , which reaches up to 5 m in length. The stems are cylindrically filiform and hairy with white or golden trichomes . An aqueous milky juice is formed. The leaves are changing. The leaf blades are simple, membranous and become 2 to 4.5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide. Their form may be lanceolate, ovoid, elliptical or rounded, forward they are blunt, dull, pointed or pointed, and often prickly. The base is rounded, cut or heart-shaped. The blade edge is quite wide. The top of the leaf is dull and sparsely trichome-trichomes, the central rib is slightly protruding. The underside is densely covered with white or golden trichomes divided into two or three halves, the feathered veins protruding. The petioles are slim and 0.5 to 1.5 cm long.The inflorescences are intermittent zyms from few flowers . The inflorescens stem is densely filly hairy and becomes about 1 cm long. The calyx is crater-shaped, the sepals are uniformly egg-shaped, do not enlarge to the ripening, are rounded at the tip and become 3 to 3.5 mm long. The funnel-shaped crown is 1.2 to 1.5 cm long, the crown space is occupied by 5 blunt lobes. The stamens are white, the stamens are 8 to 10 mm long. The fruit node is white, the scar is beyond the crown.The fruits are egg-shaped capsules of about 5 mm in length. The pericarp is thin and light brown. The seeds are about 3 mm long and fluffy hairy. They have two flat and a convex side.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Solanales
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Family: Convolvulaceae
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Genus: Jacquemontia
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