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Convolvulus hastatus

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Identification
Convolvulus hastatus Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Convolvulus arvensis L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1984
Related name
  • Convolvulus not on sheet
  • Convolvulus arvensis
  • Ipomoea eriocarpa
  • Convolvulus rhynchophyllus
  • Convolvulus sagittatus
  • Convolvulus incanus
  • Convolvulus ulosepalus
  • Convolvulus hastatus

Flora

Entry for CONVOLVULUS hastatus Thunb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 45, (1904) Author: By J. G. BAKERand C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
CONVOLVULUS hastatus Thunb. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Prod. 35;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 169; Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 407; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 105, incl. var. major.
Information
stem slender, prostrate, quadrangular, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes 10 ft. long (Burchell); leaves hastate, acute, 15 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; basal lobes up to 3 lin. long, sometimes again divided; peduncle about 1 1/2 in. long, 2-flowered, pubescent; bracts lanceolate, 2 lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long, pubescent; calyx 3 lin. long, glabrous or obscurely pubescent; sepals broadly ovate, membranous at the edges; corolla about 10 lin. long, 1 in. in diam., slightly hairy outside the central areas, pale pink (Bowker), white (Burchell); capsule globose, glabrous, 3 lin. in diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bowker! Richmond Div.; vicinity of Styl Kloof, near Richmond, Drège, 7829B!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; in rocky soil about Clanwilliam, Leipoldt, 321! Mossel Bay Div.; near the Landing-place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6316! Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 239! Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Drège! Albany Div.; Zuurveld, Gill! Lower Albany, Miss Bowker! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, Burchell, 4071! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton!EASTERN REGION Var. β, Natal; plains of Zululand, Gerrard, 1333!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenberg, Wilms, 993! Var. β: Transvaal, Mrs. Stainbank in Herb. Wood, 3650!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!
Notes
This species has been much confused with C. sagittotus, Thunb. I therefore cite only those specimens which I have seen.—C. H. W.

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