Jacquemontia ovalifolia(Choisy) Hallier f.

oval-leaf clustervine

WFO wfo-0001297278 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. a rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 196244672
Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. b rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131876188
Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. c rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196241367
Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. d rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131876249
Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. e rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131876308
Jacquemontia ovalifolia, photographed by rosshawkins
fig. f rosshawkins, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131876372

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Jacquemontia ovalifolia is native: Angola, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda AngolaDR CongoEthiopiaGhanaGuineaKenyaMadagascarMozambiqueNamibiaSomaliaTanzaniaTogoUganda
Native distribution of Jacquemontia ovalifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Convolvulus coeruleus Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Convolvulus ovalifolius West
  • Convolvulus quinquepartitus Vahl
  • Ipomoea oleracea Welw.
  • Ipomoea ovalifolia Choisy
  • Ipomoea quinquepartita (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
  • Jacquemontia coerulea Choisy ex G.Don
  • Jacquemontia ovata Owerin ex Regel

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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