Ipomoea clarkei - Yellow Deccan Morning Glory

Yellow Deccan Morning Glory is an annual slender twining herb with stem slender, hairy, about 1.2 mm in diameter. Yellow flowers are borne singly in leaf-axils, 3-4 cm long, on long stalks. Flowers are funnel-shaped, tube 2.5-3.2 cm long, limb about 1.5 cm across, hairless. Stamens are 5, unequal,1.2-1.5 cm long, style about 2 cm long. Sepal-cup is 7-8 mm long, 5 lobed; sepals slightly fused at base, unequal, ovate-lanceshaped, entire along margin, pointed to tapering at tip. Leaves are 2.5-6 x 1.2-4 cm, ovate, deeply heart-shaped with rounded 0.8-1 cm lobes at base, entire along margins, long tapering at tip; tail about 1 cm long, 5-nerved at base. Leaf-stalks are up to 3 cm long, slender, sparsely hairy. Capsules are spherical or nearly so, about 1 x 0.9 cm, beaked, hairless, 4-seeded. Yellow Deccan Morning Glory is endemic to peninsular India. Flowering: September-December.