Convolvulus scindicus Stocks, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 173. 1852. (Stocks, 1852: 173).

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 : 194

190. Convolvulus scindicus Stocks, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 173. 1852. (Stocks, 1852: 173).

Convolvulus brachyphyllus Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 122. 1856. ( Boissier 1856: 122). Type. “Scinde” [Sind], Stocks s.n. (G-BOIS?).

Type.

PAKISTAN, Sind, Stocks 433 (holotype K!).

Description.

Perennial undershrub with rigid but not spinescent branches, 20-60 cm high, branches softly grey-tomentellous. Leaves alternate or more or less clustered, sessile, coriaceous, 5-15 × 4-6 mm, obovate or elliptic, rounded to obtuse, margin undulate, gradually narrowed at base, grey or rufous-tomentose, veins strongly impressed. Inflorescence of sessile terminal heads covered in reddish-brown hairs; bracteoles 6-7 × 4 mm, obovate-elliptic, lacking veins, villous; sepals 6-7 × 1.5 mm, lanceolate, densely reddish-brown villous; corolla 10-12 mm long, white, shallowly lobed, midpetaline bands pubescent; ovary and style glabrous; capsule glabrous, apparently always 1-seeded; seeds glabrous, smooth. [ Austin and Ghazanfar 1979: 17]

Distribution.

Probably endemic to Pakistan (Lamond 810, Jaffri 3712, Rechinger 28498). Records from India ( Bhandari 1978: 248) require confirmation.

Notes.

Very distinctive because of the reddish-brown-haired terminal heads combined with the woody, but not spinescent, branches and the small, often clustered leaves with strongly impressed veins.