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 urosepalus Pau, Trab. Mus. Ci. Nat., Ser. Bot. 14: 27. 1918. (Pau 1918: 27).
Figure 19, t. 9-15
Type.
IRAN,
de la Escalera
s.n. (holotype MA-94152!).
Description.
Similar to
Convolvulus acanthocladus
. Stems erect, straight and spreading at a very acute angle to the main axis, grey-sericeous and pilose with spreading hairs, branches spine-tipped but lateral spines lacking. Leaves linear, 5-15
x
1-2 mm. Flowers solitary or paired in the uppermost leaf axils, sessile, characteristically overtopped by the spinescent branches; sepals 12-13 mm long, similar in shape to those of
Convolvulus acanthocladus
but more abruptly caudate with a pronounced apical mucro and distinctly longer; corolla c. 2.5 cm long, white but pinkish in bud. [
Rechinger 1961
: 22;
1963
: 25;
Nowroozi 2002
: 25 (plate), 100 (map)]
Distribution.
Endemic to Iran (
Koelz
18056).