Kaliwatan sa tanom nga patatas ang Ipomoea heterotricha.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni F. Didr..^[2] Ang Ipomoea heterotricha sakop sa kahenera nga Ipomoea, ug kabanay nga Convolvulaceae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Zambiya
• Malawi
• Uganda
• Tanzania
• Senegal
• Demokratikanhong Republika sa Konggo
  • Demokratikanhong Republika sa Konggo
• Congo
  • Republika sa Congo
• Anggola
• tingali Sudan
• Habagatang Sudan
• Burkina Faso
• Kotidaybor
• Mali
• Etyopiya
• Tunga-tungang Aprikanhong Republika
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guinea
• Chad
• Burundi
• Zimbabwe
• Kamerun
• Ghana
• Togo
• Benin
• Nigyeriya
• Gambia
• Cabo Verde

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 53591718. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ F. Didr. (1854) , In: Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 220
3. ↑ Hassler M. (2019). World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (version Nov 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.