Statut pour la Guyane française
Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S. N. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 55: 1-580. [GF = E]

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Wood, J., Muñoz-rodríguez, P., Williams, B. & Scotland, R. 2020. A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World. PhytoKeys, 143(undefined): 1-823. [GF = P]

 

Date de publication : Prodr. 9: 378. 1845 [01/01/1845, fide TL-2, 999].

Identification : Considéré par J. Wood comme un possible synonyme de Ipomoea batatoides Choisy 1838 (comm. pers. 30/10/2017): "I have failed to find a specimen of Ipomoea distans at Paris and I don't know what it is. From the description it must be related to Ipomoea mauritiana so my best guess is that it is either I. mauritiana itself (unlikely because of the leaf shape) or more probably Ipomoea batatoides, ..."

Statut biogéographique : Nom obscur: espèce seulement connue par sa description originale...

Type : Guyane française, Cayenne, Perrottet s.n. (HT: P n.v.).