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Polygonum convolvulus

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Identification
Polygonum convolvulus L. [family POLYGONACEAE ]
Related name
  • Polygonum convolvulus
Common name
  • Black bindweed, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for POLYGONUM Convolvulus Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 459, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
POLYGONUM Convolvulus Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 364;—Flor. Dan. t. 744; Meisn. Monogr. Polyg. 63, t. 4, fig. P., and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 135; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1227; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 53; Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 417; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 311.
Information
an annual; stem twining, slender; leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 in. wide, glabrous, or minutely puberulous on the upper side of the nerves; petiole 6–9 lin. long, slender; ochreæ short, obtuse, glabrous; flowers in axillary clusters collected into long terminal slender racemes; pedicels 1 lin. long, articulated near the apex; perianth 1 1/2 lin. long; 3 outer segments navicular, herbaceous, 2 inner flat, obovate, obtuse; stamens 8, much shorter than the perianth; anthers pale buff; ovary triquetrous; stigmas 3, capitate, subsessile; nut nearly 2 lin. long, enclosed in the accrescent perianth, triquetrous, dark brown, shining. null
Range
Probably an introduced weed. Also in North Africa, Europe and Temperate Asia.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; about Rondebosch Camp, fide Bolus & Wolley-Dod. Cathcart Div.; Glencairn, 4500 ft., Galpin, 2408!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Beginsel Farm, near Standerton, Burtt-Davy, 1785!

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