Convolvulus libanoticus Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 11: 82. 1849. (Boissier 1849: 82).

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 : 171-172

161. Convolvulus libanoticus Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 11: 82. 1849. (Boissier 1849: 82). Figure 21, t. 1-10

Convolvulus radicosus Heldr. & Sart., Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 3: 124.. 1856. ( Boissier 1856: 124). Type. GREECE, Keyllenes, Heldreich s.n. [21/6/1848] (B†; neotype Heldreich 961 (B, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 143); isoneotypes C, CAIM, E, G, K, JE, HAL, OXF, P, STU, W).

Convolvulus cantabrica subsp. radicosus (Heldr. & Sart.) Maire, Cat. Pl. Maroc 3: 588. 1934. (Jahandiez and Maire 1934: 588). Type. Based on Convolvulus radicosus Heldr. & Sart.

Type.

LEBANON, Boissier s.n. (lectotype G, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 143).

Description.

Cushion plant with branched woody rootstock, herbaceous flowering stems to 5 cm, vegetative parts adpressed-pilose to subglabrous. Leaves sessile, 1-2.5(-6) × 0.2-0.4 cm, linear to oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, entire, base attenuate; glabrous or very sparsely hairy on the upper surface. Flowers in small terminal diachasial cymes of up to 5 flowers with solitary axillary flowers or axillary cymes; bracts leaf-like; peduncles 0-3 cm; bracteoles 3 × 0.5 mm; sepals 5-8 × 1.5-2 mm, oblong-obovate, scarious with distinct, acute, green triangular apex, inner sepals scarious; corolla 1.2-1.5 cm, white or pink, unlobed, midpetaline bands pilose, terminating in a tooth; ovary pilose; style pubescent, divided c. 2 mm above the base; stigmas c. 4 mm. Capsule pubescent, seeds puberulent. [ Sa’ad 1967: 143; Tohmé and Tohmé 2007: 215 (photo); Strid 1991: 17-18]

Distribution.

Lebanon ( Bornmüller 1107, Gombault 4483), Syria (Kotschy 54); Turkey (Davis 13514); Greece (Stamatiadou 6559); Crete (?). Disjunct on mountains 1600-2700 m.