Convolvulus recurvatus R.W.Johnson, Austrobaileya 6: 32. 2001. (Johnson 2001: 32).

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 : 99-100

63. Convolvulus recurvatus R.W.Johnson, Austrobaileya 6: 32. 2001. (Johnson 2001: 32).

Type.

AUSTRALIA, South Australia, Copley 827 (holotype AD; isotype K!).

Description.

Perennial herb with trailing stems to at least 50 cm, vegetative parts sparsely to roughly pubescent with adpressed or spreading hairs. Leaves dimorphic, petiolate; petioles 5-20 mm; leaves of non-flowering shoots 1-2.5 × 0.5-0.9 cm, oblong-subrectangular, truncate at apex and base, sometimes cordate and weakly auriculate, margins coarsely dentate; leaves of flowering shoots 1.2-3 × 0.5-1.6 cm, ovate or lanceolate in outline but deeply incised lobed, characteristically with the terminal lobe prominent, linear or narrowly oblong, acute to emarginate, the margin undulate to coarsely dentate, basal part deeply bi-quadrilobed. Flowers solitary (rarely paired), pedunculate, axillary; peduncles 0.8-2.2 cm, becoming recurved in fruit; bracteoles c. 1 mm, linear; pedicels 2-6 mm; sepals 3-5 × 3-3.5 mm, obovate or elliptic, acute or rounded with a small recurved mucro; corolla 5-9 mm, white or pink, weakly lobed, midpetaline band pubescent; ovary and style glabrous; style divided 2 mm above base, stigmas 1-2 mm. Capsule glabrous, 4-4.5 mm in diameter; seeds obscurely winged and with irregular ridging. [ Johnson 2001: 312-35, f. 9-10, map 5]

Notes.

We recognise two subspecies: