Convolvulus pilosellifolius Desr., Encycl. [Lamarck et al.] 3: 551. 1792. (Desrousseaux 1792: 551).

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 : 136-137

112. Convolvulus pilosellifolius Desr., Encycl. [Lamarck et al.] 3: 551. 1792. (Desrousseaux 1792: 551).

Type.

“Levant”, Vaillant & Tournefort (holotype P-Juss!).

Description.

Perennial herb with a woody taproot, stems decumbent or ascending to 70 cm, plant usually thinly adpressed pubescent but sometimes villous. Lower leaves with petioles to 5 cm, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, stem leaves sessile, 1.5-9 × 2-1.5 cm, linear, lanceolate or oblong, acute, margin entire or wavy, attenuate at base. Flowers pedunculate, sometimes solitary but mostly clearly separated and arranged in somewhat congested, pedunculate monchasial or diachasial cymes; peduncles (1-) 3-5 (-10) cm. much exceeding the subtending bracts; bracteoles 3-6 × 1-2 mm, linear or narrowly oblong; pedicels 1.5-6 mm; sepals with green herbaceous acute, upper part, outer sepals 5-8 × 3-5 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, inner sepals ovate, caudate, corolla 10-15 mm, pink or white, unlobed (or, rarely, divided to base), midpetaline bands pubescent; ovary and style glabrous; style divided 3-4 mm above base, stigmas c. 4 mm; capsule glabrous, seeds smooth, shortly pubescent. [ Feinbrun-Dothan 1978: plate 61; Nowroozi 2002: 79 (plate), 105 (map); Jongbloed 2003: 313 (photo); Collenette 1999: 230 (photo); Austin and Ghazanfar 1979: 22]

Notes.

We recognise two varieties of this species: