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 persicus L., Sp. Pl. 1: 158. 1753. (Linnaeus 1753: 158).
Figure 10, t. 22-30
Type
.
TURKEY, Constantinople,
G. V. Aznavour
(neotype BM!, designated by Staples in
Staples and Jarvis 2006
: 1021); isoneotypes B, E!, P!).
Description.
Perennial branched undershrub with woody rootstock and lower branches, the whole plant shortly tomentose; stems very stout, 3-5 mm thick. Leaves petiolate, coriaceous, 2-5
x
1-3.5 cm, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate, apex obtuse to rounded, margin entire, base broadly cuneate to rounded, slightly asymmetric; petioles 0-6 cm. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedunculate, usually arising from the middle part of the stem; peduncles 0.8-3.3 cm; bracteoles 3-5
x
1-3 mm, ovate to oblong-elliptic, acute; pedicels 5-7 mm; sepals 12-15
x
7-9 mm, ovate, obtuse or acute; corolla 3-4.5 cm, white, unlobed, undulate, midpetaline bands pilose; filaments glandular below; ovary very narrow, thinly pilose at apex; style divided c. 18 mm above base; stigmas 2 mm, narrowly elliptic. Capsule glabrous, seeds tuberculate. [
Sa'ad
1967
: 163;
Nowrooze 2002
: 103 (map);
Grigoriev 1953
: 11 (plate)]
Distribution.
Coasts of the Black Sea: Georgia (
Cosson
8 in Hohenacker), Turkey (
Olivier &
Brugiere
s.n.,
Uslu
2141), Bulgaria (
Bosseva et al
. 88), Romania (
Grintescu
1094b) and Caspian Sea: Russia [Daghestan] (
Becker
1876), Azerbaijan (
Lewandowsky
519,
Kerimov
32), Iran (
Aucher-Eloy
4940), Turkmenistan (
Dubiansky
s.n. [14/7/1932]). Coastal sand dunes.
Notes.
A very distinct, apparently isolated species.