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 text PhytoKeys 2015 2015-06-18 51 1 282 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.51.7104 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.51.7104 1314-2003-51-1 E76E3938E216FF804849B803C469FE14 576310 67. 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.