EcoFlora - Convolvulus

Convolvulus
Family: Convolvulaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 30(2) PLANTS: Woody or herbaceous vines and shrubs. LEAVES: membranous to coriaceous, linear to ovate or elliptic with truncate, cordate, sagittate or hastate bases, glabrous or pubescent, the margins usually undulate to crenate or irregularly lobed or laciniate, usually petiolate. INFLORESCENCE: of solitary flowers or cymes; peduncles 0.3-10.5 cm long. FLOWERS: pedicels 1-3 cm long; bracts and bracteoles linear, elliptic or ovate; sepals orbicular, elliptic to ovate, pubescent or glabrous, obtuse to acute, usually mucronate, the inner 3 often somewhat longer; corolla white to rose or purple or blue on the limb and white or purplish within the tube, the limb 5-angulate to 5-lobed, the mid-petallne bands glabrous or pubescent; stamens included, unequal, with glandular trichomes on filament bases, the anthers oblong, basally auriculate, introrse; ovary 2-locular, ovoid to subglobose, glabrous or pubescent; style 1 with 2 filiform, papillose stigmas. FRUITS: capsular, 4-valved, mostly brown, chartaceous, ovoid to conical-ovoid, glabrous or pubescent. SEEDS: 1-4, trigonous or rounded, smooth or verrucose, black to dark brown, glabrous. NOTES: Ca. 100 spp., mostly Mediterranean. A few spp. are native in the Americas, particularly in temperate latitudes or elevations. (Latin: convolo = to entwine or to roll together; Convolvulus, a name used by Pliny for bindweed). Sa'ad, F. 1967. Meded. Bot. Mus. Herb. Rijks. Univ. Utrecht 281:1-288. REFERENCES: Austin, Daniel F. 1998. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Convolvulaceae 30(2): 61. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Sep 5, equal or nearly so, appressed; cor funnelform; stamens included, inserted near the base of the cor; pollen prolate to subspheroidal, with 3(4) elongate colpi; ovary 4- ovulate, bilocular or becoming 4-locellar by the development of secondary partitions between the ovules; style 1, slender, elongate; stigmas 2, linear, somewhat flattened, gradually tapering; erect, twining, or trailing perennial herbs with oblong to cordate-ovate or hastate lvs and pink and white fls borne singly or often several together on axillary peduncles; bracts 2, mostly small and well removed from the fl, not concealing the cal. 200+, cosmop., mainly Old World. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: FLC - Field Botany (Bio 382) - Week 1 - Summer 2025 \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Convolvulus alatus Map not Available Convolvulus alsinoides Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus althaeoides Map not Available Convolvulus americanus Map not Available Convolvulus ammannii Map not Available Convolvulus angustissimus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus argenteus Map not Available Convolvulus arvensis Map not Available Convolvulus aschersonii Map not Available Convolvulus assyricus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus auricomus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus auriculaefolius Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus austroafricanus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus benehoavensis Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus berryi Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus betonicifolius Map not Available Convolvulus bidrensis Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus binghamiae Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus boissieri Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus bonariensis Map not Available Convolvulus californicus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus canariensis Map not Available Convolvulus cantabrica Map not Available Convolvulus capensis Map not Available Convolvulus capituliferus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus caput-medusae $Media resource of Convolvulus caput-medusae$ Map not Available Convolvulus carolinus Map not Available Convolvulus carrii Map not Available Convolvulus chilensis Map not Available Convolvulus chinensis Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus chondrilloides Map not Available Convolvulus cneorum Map not Available Convolvulus coelesyriacus Map not Available Convolvulus commutatus Map not Available Convolvulus crenatifolius Map not Available Convolvulus cyclostegius Map not Available Convolvulus deserti Map not Available Convolvulus dorycnium Map not Available Convolvulus dryadum Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus durandoi Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus elegantissimus Map not Available Convolvulus equitans Map not Available Convolvulus erubescens Map not Available Convolvulus farinosus Map not Available Convolvulus fatmensis Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus floridus Map not Available Convolvulus fraterniflorus Map not Available Convolvulus fruticosus Map not Available Convolvulus fruticulosus Media not available Map not Available Convolvulus fulcratus Map not Available