Convolvulus cneorum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 157. 1753. (Linnaeus 1753: 157).

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 : 175

166. Convolvulus cneorum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 157. 1753. (Linnaeus 1753: 157). Figure 22, t. 28-38

Convolvulus argenteus Desr., Encycl. [Lamarck et al.] 3: 552, 1789. (Desrousseaux 1789: 552) Type. Cultivated specimen (P [Herb. Lam.]) said (erroneously) to be of Cretan origin.

Type.

Plate " Convolvulus Creticus rectus s. Dorycnium quorundam Ponae" in Morison (1680: 11, sect. 1, plate 3, f.1), lectotype, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 126).

Description.

Perennial undershrub to c. 30 cm, the flowering shoots herbaceous with all vegetative parts densely grey-sericeous. Leaves sessile, 2-3.5(-5) × 0.3-0.8(-1.2) cm, oblong to oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire, attenuate at base. Flowers in a dense terminal cymose cluster, sometimes with one or two flowers in the axils of bracts immediately below the cluster, borne on peduncles 1-2(-4) cm long; bracts as for leaves but smaller; bracteoles 9-14 × 1 mm, linear, acuminate and apiculate; pedicels 0-3 mm; sepals 7-9 × 2-3 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, densely pilose, the inner sepals broader (c. 3.5 mm) with scarious margins; corolla 2-7 cm, white, unlobed, the midpetaline bands densely pilose; ovary pilose; style glabrous or pilose at base, divided c. 3 mm above the base; stigmas 5 mm. Capsule pilose; seeds pubescent. [ Sa’ad 1967: 126; Pignatti 1982: 387]

Notes.

We recognise two varieties: