Convolvulus fractosaxosus Petrie, Trans & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 45: 271. 1913 [1912]. (Petrie 1913: 271).

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67. Convolvulus fractosaxosus Petrie, Trans & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 45: 271. 1913 [1912]. (Petrie 1913: 271).

Type.

NEW ZEALAND, South Island, Cockayne s.n. (holotype WELT-4828).

Description.

Greyish-pubescent creeping herb arising from underground rhizome; stems to 30 cm. Leaves petiolate, 1.5-3.6 × 0.2-0.8 cm, dimorphic and very variable, mostly deltoid or ovate, sometimes hastate and always with some leaves with an oblong or linear terminal lobe 1-5 cm long, combined with small basal auricles arising at right angles to the terminal lobe; petioles 1-5 cm. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedunculate; peduncles 2-6 cm long, 1-flowered, slender, pubescent; bracteoles 2-3 mm long, linear; pedicels 2-6 mm, pubescent; outer sepals 6-8 × 5-6 mm, broadly ovate, pubescent, larger than inner sepals; corolla 1.7-2 cm long, white, midpetaline bands pink; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, divided 6-7 mm above base. Capsule glabrous; seeds finely tuberculate. [ Moore and Irwin 1978: 157]

Distribution.

New Zealand: South Island (Travers 1864, Hombron 1841), 300-1600 m.

Notes.

Similar to forms of the Australian Convolvulus angustissimus found in Tasmania and Victoria but corolla and sepals slightly longer.