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Convolvulus nummularius

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Filed as Convolvulus nummularius L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Convolvulus nummularius L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Convolvulus nummularius Vahl [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Convolvulus nummularius Vahl [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Evolvulus nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Jacquemontia unilateralis (Roem. & Schult.) O'Donell [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Evolvulus nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Evolvulus nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Filed as Convolvulus nummularius L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Identification
Convolvulus nummularius L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Evolvulus nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Jacquemontia secunda
  • Jacquemontia unilateralis
  • Convolvulus secundus
  • Evolvulus not on sheet
  • Jacquemontia azurea
  • Convolvulus nummularius
  • Jacquemontia pentantha
  • Evolvulus numularius
  • Evolvulus nummularius

Flora

Entry for EVOLVULUS nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
EVOLVULUS nummularius (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2 : 391 (1762); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 68 (1905); F.W.T.A. 2 : 210 (1931); van Ooststr. in Med. Bot. Mus. Herb. Utrecht 14 : 114–121 (1934). Type : West Indies, Jamaica, Sloane (BM–SL, lecto.)
Convolvulus nummularius L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sp. Pl. : 157 (1753)
Evolvulus dichondroïdes Oliv. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc, Bot. 29 : 117, t. 78 b (1875). Type : Uganda, Speke & Grant 524 (K, holo.!)
Volvulopsis nummularius (L.) Roberty [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Candollea 14 : 28 (1952)
Information
Perennial herb; stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, pubescent. Leaf-blade orbicular or orbicular-obovate, 5–18 mm. long and broad, obtuse or retuse at the apex, subcordate at the base, glabrous or sparingly pubescent beneath; petiole 1–6 mm. long, pubescent, channelled above. Flowers solitary or rarely paired, axillary; peduncles ± 2 mm. long. Sepals elliptic-ovate, 2.5–3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, ± acute, pubescent or glabrescent. Corolla white, subrotate, 4.5 mm. long, 6 mm. in diameter, deeply lobed; the lobes obovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. broad. Capsule globose, 3–4 mm. in diameter, 1-locular, 2-valved, 4-seeded. Seeds brown to black, subglobose, 1.5–2 mm. long. Fig. 4.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K4, 5; T1–3, 6 also in tropical America
Altitude range
45–1170 m.
Distribution
KENYA Central Kavirondo District Nanga, Aug. 1934, Turner 3527 ! & Sakwa, 11 Oct. 1956, Padwa 462 !TANGANYIKA Tanga District Kange Estate, 23 Nov. 1951, Faulkner 904!TANGANYIKA Morogoro, 21 May 1933, Schlieben 3964 ! & Kimboza Forest, 6 Apr. 1954, Padwa 344 !UGANDA West Nile District Nebbi, Sept. 1940, Purseglove 1059! & SE. Metu, Rest Camp, 23 Sept. 1953, Chancellor 307! ;UGANDA Busoga District 8 km. SE. of Kaliro, 18 Sept. 1952, G. H. S. Wood 372 !
Distribution (external)
; Sudan Republic
Ivory Coast
Rhodesia
Angola
Notes
Roberty intended to separate this species from the rest of Evolvulus but as it is the type species of that genus his name is an absolute synonym of Evolvulus. Neithervan Ooststroom who has studied the genus exhaustively nor I can find any grounds for the separation.

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