Ipomoea polymorpha Roem. & Schult. APNI* 
Description: Annual with prostrate or ascending branches, villous.
Leaves with lamina elliptic 1.5–6 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, apex bluntly acute to slightly obtuse, base unevenly tapering, margins entire, undulate, toothed or lobed, glabrous or sparsely hairy; petiole 0.5–2.5 cm long.
Flowers solitary. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple to purplish violet with paler mid-petaline bands and darker throat, glabrous; tube 0.7–1.1 cm long; limb 0.6–1.1 cm diam.
Capsule globose to ± ovoid, 5–6 mm diam., 2-locular, splitting into 4 valves; seeds densely pubescent.
Flowering: throughout year.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sandy, rarely clay, soils in open Acacia and Eucalyptus communities, north from east of Tibooburra.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by R. W. Johnson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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