A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae)
Author
Wood, John R. I.
Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, OX 1 3 RB, UK & Honorary Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Author
Williams, Bethany R. M.
Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, OX 1 3 RB, UK & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
Author
Mitchell, Thomas C.
Plant Biodiversity Research, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Maximus-von-Imhof Forum 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
Author
Carine, Mark A.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
Author
Harris, David J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-2484
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH 3 5 LR, UK
Author
Scotland, Robert W.
Department of Plant Sciences, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, OX 1 3 RB, UK
robert.scotland@plants.ox.ac.uk
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Convolvulus sericophyllus T.Anderson, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5 (suppl. 1): 25. 1860. (Anderson 1860: 25).
Figure 14, t. 21-28
Convolvulus
acicularis
Vatke, Linnaea 43: 518. 1882. (
Vatke 1882
: 518). Type. SOMALIA,
Hildebrandt
885 (holotype B†; isotype BM!).
Convolvulus somalensis
Franch., Sert. Somal. 43. 1882, nom. illeg., non
Convolvulus somalensis
Vatke (1882)
. (
Franchet 1882
: 43). Type. SOMALIA,
Revoil
s.n. (P, not seen)
Type.
YEMEN, Aden,
Hooker & Thomson
s.n. (holotype K!).
Description.
Slender, erect branched shrub 0.5-3 m high, vegetative parts characteristically sericeous to strigose. Leaves subsessile, 4-13(-40)
x
1-5 (-10) mm, filiform, oblong to obovate, acute. Inflorescence with the appearance of long narrow branched racemes; flowers in dichasial cymes commonly reduced to clusters of 1 -2(-3), arising from the axils of linear bracts; peduncles 0-3.5 cm long; bracteoles linear 1-5 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long; outer sepals 2.5-3.5
x
1.5-2 mm, ovate, acute, glabrous to sericeous; corolla 6-10 mm long, white, weakly lobed, midpetaline bands strigose, red; ovary glabrous, style glabrous, divided 3 mm above base, stigmas 1 mm. Capsule glabrous; seeds pubescent. [
Thulin 2006
: 233]
Distribution.
Yemen: south (
Schweinfurth
99,
Deflers
32); Somalia: north (
Gillett
4490,
Revoil
75).
Notes.
Specimens collected after good rainfall have a rather different morphology with well-developed, obovate lower leaves,
Waring
57 being a good example.