Found in Southern Africa, Madagascar, Botswana, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, its habitat is pen woodland and savanna, grassland with scattered shrubs, rocky and sandy soils and can be spotted in an altitude range 0–1500 m. This plant has a thick tuberous, above-ground subglobose or somewhat fusiform root-stock, from 5 to 20 cm in diameter. The stems are one or several, erect or prostrate, woody at the base, glabrous, terete, usually slender. The leaves are widely spaced, narrow, covered in fine silver hairs. Ipomoea bolusiana is often confused with the very similar Ipomoea holubii. In fact the the caudex, flower of both are very similar if not identical. The difference seems to be that the leaves of the "holubii" are not needle-like but more elliptical lanceolate, slightly larger and longer and more spaced. And also the viny stems are longer and flowers more numerous. conditions although separated by very great distances or otherwise impossible contact. It is widespread, common and not threatened.