Ipomoea reniformis

Perennial plants with prostrate stems from a woody root, up to 75 cm. long, rooting at the nodes, sparsely hairy or glabrescent.

Leaf-blade orbicular or ovate-reniform, long and wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cordate at the base with broadly rounded sinus and basal lobes, entire or coarsely crenate, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Flowers axillary, solitary or in flowered cymes; peduncle very short or absent, pedicels long. Sepals long, outer shorter, obovate-elliptic, obtuse or subacute at the apex, glabrous,three inner longer, obovate, obcordate or orbicular, obsoletely cuspidate, the upper margins ciliate. Corolla yellow with pale or dark base and with midpetaline areas sometimes purplish or red-flushed, tubular-campanulate, glabrous. Capsule globose, Seeds gla long, dark brown. Useful for a cough, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, diuretic, inflammation, troubles of the nose, Powder of leaves is used as a snuff during epileptic seizures, Juice acts as purgative and the root is having diuretic, laxative, and applied in the disease of the eyes and gums.