Convolvulus pentapetaloides L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 3: 229. 1768. (Linnaeus 1768: 229).

Wood, John R. I., Williams, Bethany R. M., Mitchell, Thomas C., Carine, Mark A., Harris, David J. & Scotland, Robert W., 2015, A foundation monograph of Convolvulus L. (Convolvulaceae), PhytoKeys 51, pp. 1-282 : 118

88. Convolvulus pentapetaloides L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 3: 229. 1768. (Linnaeus 1768: 229). Figure 12, t. 31-39

Convolvulus arcuatus C. Presl, Fl. Sic. xxxiii. 1826. ( Presl 1826: xxxiii). Type. None specified.

Convolvulus tricolor subsp. pentapetaloides (L.) O. Bolòs & Vigo, Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 14: 90. 1983. ( Bolòs and Vigo 1983: 90). Type. Based on Convolvulus pentapetaloides L.

Type.

Without locality, Latourette s.n. (lectotype LINN 218.41!, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 207).

Description.

Annual herb with slender rootstock, often branched at base; stems adpressed pubescent. Lower leaves c. 3-6 × 0.7-1.2 cm; spathulate with an attenuate, pseudopetiolar base, apex obtuse, margin entire, nearly glabrous but more or less ciliate on the margins; upper stem leaves and bracts clasping, 2-4 (-6) × 0.4-0.8 cm, lanceolate (to oblanceolate). Flowers solitary, pedunculate, axillary; peduncles 5-18 mm, pubescent, becoming recurved in fruit; bracteoles 1-3 mm, filiform to narrowly lanceolate; pedicels 3-8 mm, pubescent; sepals somewhat scarious, 5 × 2.5 mm, ovate, acute and mucronate, glabrous apart from long basal trichomes; corolla 0.7-0.9 mm long, blue, shallowly lobed, midpetaline bands pubescent with brown hairs; filaments sparsely glandular below; ovary glabrous or with a few very long trichomes; style glabrous, divided 3-4 mm above the base, stigmas c. 2 mm. Capsule glabrous, strongly exserted from the sepals; seeds covered in pointed tubercles. [ Sa’ad 1967: 188; Feinbrun-Dothan 1978 (plate 60); Tohmé and Tohmé 2007: 215 (photo); Pignatti 1982: 388; Silvestre 2012: 269; Strid and Strid 2009: 396-397 (plate)]

Distribution.

Circum-mediterranean, east to Iraq: Portugal (Daveau 2428); Spain; Balearic Islands (White s.n. [4/3/1903]); Italy (Bicknell & Pollini 632); Sardinia; Sicily (Todaro 923); Malta (Duthie s.n. [23/3/1874]); Greece (Guiol s.n. [7/1930]); Cyprus (Meikle 2006, Sintenis & Rigo 60); Turkey (Siehe 103); Lebanon (Gombault 4504); Syria (Haradjian 4344); Palestine/Israel (Davis 4486); Jordan (Trought s.n. [21/4/1953]); Iraq (Al-Rawi 8853); Libya (Sandwith 2314, Archibald 968); Russia: Caucasus/Balkaria (Czermak s.n.).

Notes.

Similar morphologically to Convolvulus siculus but distinguished by its sessile leaves.