Convolvulus reticulatus Choisy, Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 9: 399. 1845. (Choisy 1845: 399).

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 : 191

185. Convolvulus reticulatus Choisy, Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 9: 399. 1845. (Choisy 1845: 399). Figure 24, t. 28-37

Type.

IRAQ, Aucher-Eloy 1408 (lectotype G-DC, designated by Sa’ad 1967: 165).

Description.

Prostrate perennial to 50 cm from a woody taproot, the whole plant densely velvety-tomentose of characteristic dark brown colour in herbarium specimens; stems 2-3 mm thick. Leaves bullate above, reticulate and greener beneath, becoming leathery when old; lower leaves up to 9 × 2.2 cm, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, entire, attenuate at base; stem leaves and bracts ovate, acute, abruptly rounded at base. Flowers in pedunculate (below) or subsessile (above) or all subsessile, axillary several-flowered heads; bracts c. 1.5-3 × 1-2.2 cm, ovate, nearly as broad as long; peduncles 0-5 cm, tomentose; bracteoles 6-10 × 2-5 mm, lanceolate to elliptic, acute; sepals 8-11 × 1.5-2.5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, pilose; inner sepals narrower, c. 0.5-1 mm wide; corolla 1.2-1.5 cm long, white, unlobed but slightly undulate, midpetaline bands adpressed brown-pilose; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, divided c. 3 mm above base; stigmas 4 mm; capsule glabrous; seeds pubescent (fide Sa’ad). [ Sa’ad 1967: 165]

Notes.

We recognise two subspecies: