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Enredadera perenne con raíz tuberosa comestible. Tallo, algo suculento pero algunas veces delgado y herbáceo, glabro o pubescente, ramificado. Hojas de cordadas a ovadas, enteras, dentadas o profundamente lobadas, de 5 a 10 cm de largo, glabras o raramente pubescentes, ápice agudo a acuminado, mucronado. Inflorescencias cimosas a cimoso-umbeladas con pocas flores; flores con sépalos oblongos; corola campanulada con limbo color lavanda a púrpura-lavanda y garganta más oscura, blanca en algunas variedades. Cápsula ovoide, glabra, café clara a pajiza, bilocular, 4-valvada; semillas 4, glabras café obscuras a café.
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Jiménez,131,JBSD
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Ed.3References
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