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Convolvulus farinosus [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Convolvulus farinosus [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
C. cordifolius Thunb.: 35 (1794); Choisy: 413 (1845). Type: Cape, Thunberg s.n. (U, hole).
Information
Herbaceous perennial. Stems many, long, slender, weak, climbing or prostrate and usualÂly branched, pubescent or farinose-puberulous, younger shoots often silvery. Leaves usually cordate-deltoid or sagittate, acute with terminal mucro, rarely obtuse, subentire to irregularly and shallowly crenate, herbaceous drying memÂbranous, glabrous above except when young, glabrous or somewhat pubescent beneath, disÂtinctly net-veined; basal sinus broad, basal auriÂcles rounded or pointed, sometimes with a few teeth; very rarely leaves with additional trianguÂlar lobes above basal auricles; blade 40-120 mm x 30-90 mm; petiole up to 65 mm long, finely and densely pubescent. Peduncles as long as, or longer than subtending petiole, finely pubescent, subumbellately 1-6-flowered; bracts minute, linear or lanceolate, pubescent; pedicels short. Sepals unequal, oblong or elliptic (outer ones) to suborbicular (inner ones), much imbriÂcate, acute or obtuse with terminal mucro, 6-8 mm long; 2 outer ones somewhat pubescent; 3 inner ones less pubescent to almost glabrous and wider. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, very pale pink or very pale pinkish mauve, 12-15 mm long; lobes short, tube rather narrow; mid-petaline areas hairy towards obtuse, mucronate tips of lobes. Stamens bearing short thick laterÂal papillae in their dilated basal portions; anthers dirty purple. Ovary glabrous. Capsule subglobose, shortly apiculate, glabrous, 5-8 mm wide, pale brown. Seeds usually 4, sub-trigonous, 3.5-4.0 mm long, black, scabridulous-rugose. Flowering time throughout the year.
Habitat
Distinguishing characters: cordate-deltoid leaves and 12-14 mm long corolla.
Use
8. Convolvulus farinosus L., Mantissa plantarum 2: 203 (1771); Choisy: 412 (1845); Hallier f.: 104 (1893a); Baker & C.H.Wright: 74 (1904); Baker & Rendle: 98 (1905-06); T.M.Salter: 685 (1950); A.Meeuse: 684 (1957a); Verde: 41 (1963a); Compton: 474 (1976); Gone.: 28, t. 8 (1987); Gone.: 27, t. 8 (1992); Lejoly & Lisowski: 371, fig. 5 (1993b); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 380 (1997). Type: Sweden (cultivated in Uppsala), specimen 218.6 (LINN, lecto.).
Range
A common and occasionally weedy species in bushveld, grassland, forest margins and underÂgrowth, on river banks, on sand, loam and clay. Found in the northern, eastern and southern parts of southern Africa, but absent from Namibia, Botswana and the Northern Cape. Occurs further north in tropical and subtropical eastern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, also in the western Mediterranean area. Map 24.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Convolvulus farinosus [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
C. cordifolius Thunb.: 35 (1794); Choisy: 413 (1845). Type: Cape, Thunberg s.n. (U, hole).
Information
Herbaceous perennial. Stems many, long, slender, weak, climbing or prostrate and usualÂly branched, pubescent or farinose-puberulous, younger shoots often silvery. Leaves usually cordate-deltoid or sagittate, acute with terminal mucro, rarely obtuse, subentire to irregularly and shallowly crenate, herbaceous drying memÂbranous, glabrous above except when young, glabrous or somewhat pubescent beneath, disÂtinctly net-veined; basal sinus broad, basal auriÂcles rounded or pointed, sometimes with a few teeth; very rarely leaves with additional trianguÂlar lobes above basal auricles; blade 40-120 mm x 30-90 mm; petiole up to 65 mm long, finely and densely pubescent. Peduncles as long as, or longer than subtending petiole, finely pubescent, subumbellately 1-6-flowered; bracts minute, linear or lanceolate, pubescent; pedicels short. Sepals unequal, oblong or elliptic (outer ones) to suborbicular (inner ones), much imbriÂcate, acute or obtuse with terminal mucro, 6-8 mm long; 2 outer ones somewhat pubescent; 3 inner ones less pubescent to almost glabrous and wider. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, very pale pink or very pale pinkish mauve, 12-15 mm long; lobes short, tube rather narrow; mid-petaline areas hairy towards obtuse, mucronate tips of lobes. Stamens bearing short thick laterÂal papillae in their dilated basal portions; anthers dirty purple. Ovary glabrous. Capsule subglobose, shortly apiculate, glabrous, 5-8 mm wide, pale brown. Seeds usually 4, sub-trigonous, 3.5-4.0 mm long, black, scabridulous-rugose. Flowering time throughout the year.
Habitat
Distinguishing characters: cordate-deltoid leaves and 12-14 mm long corolla.
Use
8. Convolvulus farinosus L., Mantissa plantarum 2: 203 (1771); Choisy: 412 (1845); Hallier f.: 104 (1893a); Baker & C.H.Wright: 74 (1904); Baker & Rendle: 98 (1905-06); T.M.Salter: 685 (1950); A.Meeuse: 684 (1957a); Verde: 41 (1963a); Compton: 474 (1976); Gone.: 28, t. 8 (1987); Gone.: 27, t. 8 (1992); Lejoly & Lisowski: 371, fig. 5 (1993b); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 380 (1997). Type: Sweden (cultivated in Uppsala), specimen 218.6 (LINN, lecto.).
Range
A common and occasionally weedy species in bushveld, grassland, forest margins and underÂgrowth, on river banks, on sand, loam and clay. Found in the northern, eastern and southern parts of southern Africa, but absent from Namibia, Botswana and the Northern Cape. Occurs further north in tropical and subtropical eastern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, also in the western Mediterranean area. Map 24.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Convolvulus farinosus [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Common names
C. cordifolius Thunb.: 35 (1794); Choisy: 413 (1845). Type: Cape, Thunberg s.n. (U, hole).
Information
Herbaceous perennial. Stems many, long, slender, weak, climbing or prostrate and usualÂly branched, pubescent or farinose-puberulous, younger shoots often silvery. Leaves usually cordate-deltoid or sagittate, acute with terminal mucro, rarely obtuse, subentire to irregularly and shallowly crenate, herbaceous drying memÂbranous, glabrous above except when young, glabrous or somewhat pubescent beneath, disÂtinctly net-veined; basal sinus broad, basal auriÂcles rounded or pointed, sometimes with a few teeth; very rarely leaves with additional trianguÂlar lobes above basal auricles; blade 40-120 mm x 30-90 mm; petiole up to 65 mm long, finely and densely pubescent. Peduncles as long as, or longer than subtending petiole, finely pubescent, subumbellately 1-6-flowered; bracts minute, linear or lanceolate, pubescent; pedicels short. Sepals unequal, oblong or elliptic (outer ones) to suborbicular (inner ones), much imbriÂcate, acute or obtuse with terminal mucro, 6-8 mm long; 2 outer ones somewhat pubescent; 3 inner ones less pubescent to almost glabrous and wider. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, very pale pink or very pale pinkish mauve, 12-15 mm long; lobes short, tube rather narrow; mid-petaline areas hairy towards obtuse, mucronate tips of lobes. Stamens bearing short thick laterÂal papillae in their dilated basal portions; anthers dirty purple. Ovary glabrous. Capsule subglobose, shortly apiculate, glabrous, 5-8 mm wide, pale brown. Seeds usually 4, sub-trigonous, 3.5-4.0 mm long, black, scabridulous-rugose. Flowering time throughout the year.
Habitat
Distinguishing characters: cordate-deltoid leaves and 12-14 mm long corolla.
Use
8. Convolvulus farinosus L., Mantissa plantarum 2: 203 (1771); Choisy: 412 (1845); Hallier f.: 104 (1893a); Baker & C.H.Wright: 74 (1904); Baker & Rendle: 98 (1905-06); T.M.Salter: 685 (1950); A.Meeuse: 684 (1957a); Verde: 41 (1963a); Compton: 474 (1976); Gone.: 28, t. 8 (1987); Gone.: 27, t. 8 (1992); Lejoly & Lisowski: 371, fig. 5 (1993b); Retief & P.P.J.Herman: 380 (1997). Type: Sweden (cultivated in Uppsala), specimen 218.6 (LINN, lecto.).
Range
A common and occasionally weedy species in bushveld, grassland, forest margins and underÂgrowth, on river banks, on sand, loam and clay. Found in the northern, eastern and southern parts of southern Africa, but absent from Namibia, Botswana and the Northern Cape. Occurs further north in tropical and subtropical eastern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, also in the western Mediterranean area. Map 24.
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