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Convolvulus penicillatus

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Isotype of Convolvulus penicillatus A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Isotype of Convolvulus penicillatus A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Syntype of Convolvulus sagittatus Thunb. subvar. abyssinica Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Syntype of Convolvulus sagittatus Thunb. subvar. abyssinica Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Convolvulus farinosus L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Holotype of Convolvulus penicillatus A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Convolvulus farinosus L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sebsebe Demissew, Convolvulus schweinfurthii Engl. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Convolvulus penicillatus A.Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Convolvulus penicillatus
  • Convolvulus sagittatus
  • Convolvulus farinosus
  • Convolvulus schweinfurthii

Flora

Entry for CONVOLVULUS sagittatus Hallier f. var. abyssinica [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CONVOLVULUS sagittatus Hallier f. var. abyssinica [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (as subvar.) in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 533. —Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 61
CONVOLVULUS penicillatus Rich. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 74; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 103.
CONVOLVULUS Aschersoni Engl. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Hochgebirgsflor. Trop. Afr. 349.
CONVOLVULUS sagittatus Baker ex Rendle var. macroglottis [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 39.
Information
A somewhat more robust plant than the species, more or less glaucous green when dry. Stems long slender, prostrate, more or less grey or brownish, sometimes silky pubescent. Leaves 1 1/4 to 2 1/4 in. long, varying considerably in breadth, but larger and generally broader than in the species, rarely reaching 6 lin. broad, basal lobes recurved, often toothed or multifid, pubescent like the stem. Flowers 1–2, rarely more, on slender more or less elongated peduncles. Bracts narrow linear; pedicels about as long as or longer than the calyx, sometimes shorter. Sepals 3–4 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse and apiculate or cuspidate, to subacute, bearing on the back the characteristic pubescence. Corolla white or pink, 4–5 lin. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, about 3 lin. in diam. Seeds 4, brown, glabrous.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Saganeïti, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1739! near Acrour, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1061! Bogos, Hildebrandt, 498! Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 497, 499;Angola Lower Guinea Ambaca, Welwitsch, 6204! Huilla, Welwitsch, 6116!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lower plateau, north of Lake Nyassa, Thomson !Abyssinia Nile Land Misshall, 7000 ft., Schimper, 660! Somak Efat, Roth, 424! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1130.Somaliland Nile Land Habrawal, Smith!British East Africa Nile Land Leikipia, Gregory! near Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 7145!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Salisbury, Rand, 510! Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 74!Ngamiland Mozamb. Dist. near Kwebe, Lugard, 77!

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