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|accepted_name=Jacquemontia pentanthos
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) G. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Hist.
|place=4: 283. 1837
|year=1837
|other_info_on_pub=(as pentantha)
}}
|common_names=Skyblue clustervine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Convolvulus pentanthos
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
|publication_title=Collectanea
|publication_place=4: 210.  1791
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Jacquemontia;Jacquemontia pentanthos
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Jacquemontia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Jacquemontia pentanthos]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial. <b>Herbage</b> usually hairy, sometimes glabrescent, hairs stellate, 3-armed, arms ± equal, multiangular and recurved. <b>Stems</b> from stout rootstocks, twining-climbing, to 5 m. <b>Leaf</b> blades ovate, 20–60(–110) × 15–70(–170) mm, base cordate, margins faintly repand, apex attenuate, surfaces mostly glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> compact to dense, (1–)3–8+-flowered, peduncles usually longer than leaves, bracts linear, 1 × 0.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals unequal, outers usually rhombic, sometimes ovate, 4–7 mm, base narrowed to short stalk, margins undulate, apex long-attenuate, surfaces sparsely hairy or glabrous, inners ovate, 3–7 mm, apex acute to acuminate; corollas (in flora area) blue, usually campanulate, sometimes subrotate, 10–20 mm, limb entire. <b>Capsules</b> subglobose to broadly ovoid, 4–6 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Apr.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, pine rocklands, coastal rock barrens, marl prairies, bayheads.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (mostly absent from Bahamas);Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Jacquemontia pentanthos is widespread in the American tropics and subtropics with its northern limit of distribution in southern Florida. It is widely cultivated. It is at the core of approximately ten species occurring in Mexico and Central America.</p>
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name=Jacquemontia pentanthos
|authority=(Jacquin) G. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Convolvulus pentanthos
|family=Convolvulaceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Apr.
|habitat=Rockland hammocks, pine rocklands, coastal rock barrens, marl prairies, bayheads.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies (mostly absent from Bahamas);Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Hist.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Jacquemontia
|species=Jacquemontia pentanthos
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