Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ipomoea cairica
Campanilla palmeada, Cairo morning-glory, Five-leaf morning-glory, Railroad-creeper
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Ipomoea
Species
cairica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn: Ipomoea pulcella Roth (Wood et al. 2020). Syn: Ipomoea cairica var. cairica (WFO, 2021)
Origin: Introduced - established
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Indigenous throughout Africa, also from the eastern Mediterranean region through Asia to Taiwan; naturalised elsewhere as an escape from cultivation (WFO, 2021).
- WFO (2021) World Flora Online. Published on the Internet. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/ WFO (2021): World Flora Online. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Wood, J. Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Williams, B. & Scotland, R. (2020) A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World Wood, J., Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Williams, B. & Scotland, R. (2020). A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World. Phytokeys, 143: 1-823. doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.143.32821
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ipomoea cairica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19890. Accessed 6 June 2025.