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Convolvulus prostratus

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Identification
Isotype of Convolvulus deserti Hochst. & Steud. ex Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Convolvulus prostratus Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Convolvulus pentapetaloides
  • Convolvulus holosericeus
  • Convolvulus microphyllus
  • Convolvulus deserti
  • Convolvulus heterotrichus
  • Convolvulus prostratus

Flora

Entry for CONVOLVULUS prostratus Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M.A. García (Cuscuta), Sebsebe Demissew (Cladostigma, Hildebrandtia, Seddera), and M. Thulin (Astripomoea, Convolvulus, Cressa, Dichondra, Evolvulus, Hewittia, Hyalocystis, Ipomoea, Jacquemontia, Merremia, Operculina, Stictocardia, Turbina, Xenostegia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CONVOLVULUS prostratus Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], (1775).
Information
Perennial herb; stems ascending or decumbent, 10–40 cm long, ± densely pubescent with appressed to spreading hairs. Leaves subsessile; blades linear to oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 8–30 x 1.5–6 mm, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse at the apex, appressed pubescent to villous. Cymes 1–3(–8)-flowered, head-like; peduncle up to 20(–30) mm long but often much shorter or absent; bracts linear to lanceolate, c. 3–7 mm long; pedicels up to 3 mm long. Sepals lanceolate-acuminate, 4–8 mm long, the 2 outer longer, villous. Corolla white or pale pink, 10–13 mm long, midpetaline areas pubescent. style c. 2–4 mm long; stigma-lobes 3–5 mm long. Capsule subglobose, 3–4 mm in diam. Seeds 2–4, c. 2–2.5 mm long, dark brown, shortly white pubescent or glabrous.
Range
N3 Red Sea region, S part of the Arabian peninsula and eastwards to Pakistan.
Altitude range
c. 10 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 5800.
Notes
First record for Somalia.

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