A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae)
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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
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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
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Mitchell, Thomas C.
Plant Biodiversity Research, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Maximus-von-Imhof Forum 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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Carine, Mark A.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
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Harris, David J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-2484
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH 3 5 LR, UK
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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 fractosaxosus Petrie, Trans & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 45: 271. 1913 [1912]. (Petrie 1913: 271).
Type.
NEW ZEALAND, South Island,
Cockayne
s.n. (holotype WELT-4828).
Description.
Greyish-pubescent creeping herb arising from underground rhizome; stems to 30 cm. Leaves petiolate, 1.5-3.6
x
0.2-0.8 cm, dimorphic and very variable, mostly deltoid or ovate, sometimes hastate and always with some leaves with an oblong or linear terminal lobe 1-5 cm long, combined with small basal auricles arising at right angles to the terminal lobe; petioles 1-5 cm. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedunculate; peduncles 2-6 cm long, 1-flowered, slender, pubescent; bracteoles 2-3 mm long, linear; pedicels 2-6 mm, pubescent; outer sepals 6-8
x
5-6 mm, broadly ovate, pubescent, larger than inner sepals; corolla 1.7-2 cm long, white, midpetaline bands pink; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, divided 6-7 mm above base. Capsule glabrous; seeds finely tuberculate. [
Moore and Irwin 1978
: 157]
Distribution.
New Zealand: South Island (
Travers
1864,
Hombron
1841), 300-1600 m.
Notes.
Similar to forms of the Australian
Convolvulus angustissimus
found in Tasmania and Victoria but corolla and sepals slightly longer.