6993.000 Convolvulus
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs with erect, prostrate or twining stems. Leaves variable, entire or lobed. Flowers axillary in 1-flowered cymes, sometimes subumbellate. Sepals 5, equal or subequal. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, pink or pinkish-purple, shallowly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-locular. Style 1, simple, filiform; stigmas 2, linear, about the same thickness as the styles, filiform. Capsule usually 4-valved. Seeds usually 4, black or brown, usually glabrous. Worldwide: c.250 species, mostly in temperate and subtropical regions; rare in the tropics Zimbabwe: 8 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| farinosus L. | C,E,S | |
| ocellatus Hook.f. var. ocellatus | C | Description |
| ocellatus Hook.f. var. ornatus (Engl.) A. Meeuse | E | |
| ocellatus Hook.f. var. plicinervius Verdc. [End] [LR-lc] | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| sagittatus Thunb. var. sagittatus | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| sagittatus Thunb. var. aschersonii (Engl.) Verdc. | N,W,C,E | |
| sagittatus Thunb. var. phyllosepalus Hallier f. | E | Description, Image |
| sagittatus agg. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
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