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Convolvulus wightii

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Identification
Convolvulus wightii Wall. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ipomoea wighttii (Wall.) Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ipomoea wightii
  • Ipomoea wighttii
  • Convolvulus wightii

Flora

Entry for IPOMŒA Wightii Choisy [family ]
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
IPOMŒA Wightii Choisy [family ], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genèv. vi. (1833) 470;—Convolv. Orient. 88, and DC. Prod. ix. 364; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1364; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 239; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 203; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 133, and xxviii. 32.
IPOMŒA arachnoidea Bojer [family ], Hort. Maur. 228, name only; Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 364; Hallier f. l.c.
Convolvulus Wightii Wall. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Pl. Asiat. Rar. ii. 55, t. 171.
Convolvulus gossypinus Wall. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Cat. 1407.
Information
stems wide-twining, slender, terete, densely clothed with soft deflexed spreading hairs; leaves membranous, about as broad as long (3–4 in.), roundish, deeply cordate, with 3 shallow subequal rounded lobes, green and thinly bristly above, thinly coated with persistent white tomentum beneath; petiole longer than the blade; peduncle shorter than the petiole; flowers few, capitate; bracts linear; calyx very shaggy, 1/3 in. long; sepals lanceolate, leafy, acute or acuminate; corolla narrowly campanulate, about 1 in. long, rose-colour; capsule pubescent, membranous, nearly as long as the calyx. null
Range
Also in Madagascar, and Tropical Africa and Asia.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1310! Pinetown, Rehmann, 7986 (ex Hallier) and without precise locality, Cooper, 2780! Mrs. K. Saunders! Gueinzius (ex Hallier f.); Zululand, Gerrard, 402! Wood, 7899!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; overgrowing shrubs in wooded ravines near Barberton, 3000–4000 ft., Galpin, 953! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5933 (ex Hallier f.).

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