Convolvulus stachydifolius Choisy, Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 9: 408. 1845. (Choisy 1845: 408).

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 : 59

14. Convolvulus stachydifolius Choisy, Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 9: 408. 1845. (Choisy 1845: 408).

Type.

SYRIA/IRAQ, Aleppo to Mosul, Olivier s.n. (lectotype G-DC, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 243); isolectotypes P04209089!, P04209090!).

Description.

Perennial herb with decumbent stems up to 1 m long from a central rootstock, vegetative parts pubescent with crisped, somewhat retrorse hairs, occasionally villous to subtomentose. Leaves petiolate, 1.5-6 × 1.5-5.5 cm, ovate-reniform, apex obtuse, margin undulate, crenate-dentate to sinuate-dentate, base cordate and cuneate onto the petiole; petioles 1-4.5 cm. Flowers 1-5 in pedunculate axillary cymes; peduncles 3-9 cm; bracteoles 3-8 mm, filiform; pedicels mostly 1-1.5 cm but sometimes longer resulting in a very lax inflorescence; outer sepals 6-8 × 4-5 mm, obovate or broadly oblong, obtuse, retuse or truncate and mucronate, scarious, pubescent, inner sepals membranous with a truncate base, glabrous or nearly so; corolla (1.5-)2.5-3.5 cm long, pink to purplish, unlobed, midpetaline bands thinly pilose; filaments glandular below; ovary glabrous or with a few apical hairs, style glabrous or sparsely pilose, divided 5 mm above base, stigmas 4 mm. Capsule glabrous; seeds glabrous, strongly tuberculate. [ Sa’ad 1967: 243; Feinbrun-Dothan 1978 (plate 70); Tohmé and Tohmé 2007: 216 (photo); Nowroozi 2002: 84 (plate), 105 (map)]

Notes.

We recognise two varieties which can distinguished by indumentum and floral characters: