Convolvulus bidentatus Bernh.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial with a thick taproot. Stems several, slender, prostrate or climbing, up to ±3 m long, usually somewhat 4-angled, glabrous or sometimes pubescent. Leaves narrowly hastate to linear with hastate base, glabrous or pubescent, up to 45-70 mm long and middle lobe 1-8 mm wide; basal lobes up to 25 mm long, usually deeply bifid; apex usually obtuse, mucronate; margin entire; lowermost leaves, if present, sometimes broader, oblong or sagittate-oblong or occasionally palmately 5-7-lobed with middle lobe the longest, up to 15 mm wide. Peduncles mostly 2-flowered, rarely 1-flowered or cymosely 3-5-flowered, 30-140 mm long, rarely shorter, pubescent or glabrous; bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm long; pedicels short, pubescent, usually somewhat 4-angled and subclavate, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 6-8 mm long, glabrous or very rarely obscurely pubescent; sepals broadly ovate or obovate, rather chartaceous with membranous edges, much imbricate, obtuse to rounded, apex often almost mucronate. Corolla 15-22 mm long, white or pale pink; midpetaline areas slightly hairy outside near apex. Capsule globose, glabrous, ±6 mm wide, almost completely enclosed in calyx. Seeds black, minutely rugose and subpuberulous with tufts of very minute brown hairs.
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Glabrous to pubescent perennial, taproot thick. Stems several, prostrate or climbing, ± 4-angled, up to ± 3 m long. Leaves narrowly hastate to linear with hastate base, margins entire, 45-70 mm long, basal lobes up to 25 mm long, usually deeply bifid. Peduncles 2-5-flowered, 30-140 mm long; bracts 3-5 mm long; pedicels ± 4-angled, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 6-8 mm long, ± glabrous; sepals broadly ovate or obovate, edges membranous. Corolla 15-22 mm long, white or pale pink; midpetaline areas ± hairy outside near apex. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. Fruit a globose, glabrous capsule, ± 6 mm wide, ± enclosed in calyx. Seeds black, minutely rugose with tufts of minute brown hairs.
Like C. sagittatus but basal leaf lobes often bifid and sepals large, papery, obtuse, with membranous margins, 6-8 mm long, corolla 15-22 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Root system tap-root
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 5 - 14
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Convolvulus bidentatus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:265903-1
WFO ID wfo-0001297599
COL ID XYW5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Convolvulus hastatus Convolvulus bidentatus