Convolvulus sericophyllus T.Anderson, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5 (suppl. 1): 25. 1860. (Anderson 1860: 25).

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 : 139-140

114. Convolvulus sericophyllus T.Anderson, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5 (suppl. 1): 25. 1860. (Anderson 1860: 25). Figure 14, t. 21-28

Convolvulus acicularis Vatke, Linnaea 43: 518. 1882. ( Vatke 1882: 518). Type. SOMALIA, Hildebrandt 885 (holotype B†; isotype BM!).

Convolvulus somalensis Franch., Sert. Somal. 43. 1882, nom. illeg., non Convolvulus somalensis Vatke (1882). ( Franchet 1882: 43). Type. SOMALIA, Revoil s.n. (P, not seen)

Type.

YEMEN, Aden, Hooker & Thomson s.n. (holotype K!).

Description.

Slender, erect branched shrub 0.5-3 m high, vegetative parts characteristically sericeous to strigose. Leaves subsessile, 4-13(-40) × 1-5 (-10) mm, filiform, oblong to obovate, acute. Inflorescence with the appearance of long narrow branched racemes; flowers in dichasial cymes commonly reduced to clusters of 1 -2(-3), arising from the axils of linear bracts; peduncles 0-3.5 cm long; bracteoles linear 1-5 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long; outer sepals 2.5-3.5 × 1.5-2 mm, ovate, acute, glabrous to sericeous; corolla 6-10 mm long, white, weakly lobed, midpetaline bands strigose, red; ovary glabrous, style glabrous, divided 3 mm above base, stigmas 1 mm. Capsule glabrous; seeds pubescent. [ Thulin 2006: 233]

Distribution.

Yemen: south (Schweinfurth 99, Deflers 32); Somalia: north (Gillett 4490, Revoil 75).

Notes.

Specimens collected after good rainfall have a rather different morphology with well-developed, obovate lower leaves, Waring 57 being a good example.