17. Aniseia Choisy, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève. 6: 481, plate 2, fig. 9. 1834.
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[Greek a, not, and isos equal, alluding to unequal sepals]
Daniel F. Austin†
Perennials. Stems usually twining-climbing or trailing, sometimes decumbent, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, or glabrous. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, 40–80 mm, surfaces glabrous, glabrescent, or tomentose. Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2–3-flowered cymes. Flowers: sepals lanceolate, 12–20 mm, unequal, notably accrescent in fruit, outer 3 notably longer than inner 2; corolla white, campanulate, 25–30 mm, limb 5-toothed or entire; anthers straight after dehiscence; pollen rugate, not echinate; styles 1; stigmas 2, globose. Fruits capsular, ovoid [globose], dehiscence valvate. Seeds (3–)4, ovoid to obovoid, glabrous or hairy around margins [hairy on surfaces]. x = 15.
Species 3 (1 in the flora): introduced, Florida; Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America; introduced also in Eurasia, Africa.
SELECTED REFERENCES Austin, D. F. 1973. Another adventive morning glory in Florida: Aniseia martinicensis. Florida Sci. 36: 197–198. Austin, D. F. 1999. The genus Aniseia. Syst. Bot. 23: 411–420.
